Bug#257075: tetex-bin: apt-get install fails

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

merge 257075 248351
stop

Miquel Cantallops <miquel@cantallops.net> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-15
> Severity: normal
>
> apt-get install tetex-bin fails rendering the paquet uninstallable. So
> all paquets that depend on tetex-bin are also uninstallable.
>
> # apt-get install tetex-bin
[...]
> Generating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... cp: preserving permissions for
> `/tmp/tmp.dE4EBE/texmfXI3miuC.md5sum.d': Invalid argument

This has been reported before (therefore merging the bugs), but
unfortunately the first submitter did not answer our questions. Thus we
were not able to do anything about this. Nice to find somebody else who
encounters the problem, I hope you have some time to help us out.

Could you please tell us which kind of filesystem you use on the
partition that contains /tmp? If you don't remember, the output of a
"mount" command without arguments would help.

Thanks in advance, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie