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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Miquel Cantallops Mora <miquel@cantallops.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:39:25AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>
> All the / system is XFS:
>
> $ mount
> /dev/hda1 on / type unknown (rw)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (
>
>
> The kernel is from a Debian XFS Netinst CD:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux ithaqua 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs #1 Son Jul 14 09:40:39 CEST 2002 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> The computer is a laptop Thinkpad T21 that I got two daya ago. I'll try to
> upgrade the kernel to 2.6.7, because my desktop also has xfs, with a 2.6.5
> kernel, and has no problem with all that. It also could be some
> missconfiguration or missing dependency :-?

I doubt this. If I am right, you can have the same error message with 

cp -p an/arbitrary/file /tmp

I can do this with 

alhambra:~# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy/
alhambra:~# cp -p bla /floppy/
cp: failed to preserve ownership for `/floppy/bla': Operation not permitted
alhambra:~# 

If you want an installed tetex-bin, you can edit /usr/sbin/update-texmf
and replace the line

cp -a ${MD5SUMS} ${TMPTXMF}.md5sum.d

to

cp -R ${MD5SUMS} ${TMPTXMF}.md5sum.d 

But that will only hide the problem. I think the problem is that your cp
binary and your kernel fail to cooperate. I would really like to find
out what the problem is.

If it goes away with an updated kernel, please tell me - we should then
reassign this to the original kernel package.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie