Bug#337073: tex-common doesn't install (can't chmod ls-R file)
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 02.11.05 Joe Drew (drew@debian.org) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> tex-common fails to install because it can't chmod an ls-R file.
>> /var/lib/texmf exists on my system, but the ls-R file doesn't.
>>
>> Setting up tex-common (0.9) ...
>> chmod: cannot access `/var/lib/texmf/ls-R': No such file or directory
>> dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>
> I can reproduce that bug. But only if I have configured debconf to
> ask me the low questions too and selecting var at the first question
> (BTW: Selecting cache is said to be the default, but it's not
> selected).
> When calling dpkg --pending --configure a second time the
> configuration succeeds. The file in question however still does not
> exist....
Can you describe exactly what you were doing, including what system you
were starting from? I just tried in a pbuilder environment, and it
didn't give an error...
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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