This one time, at band camp, Norbert Preining said: > On Son, 26 Feb 2006, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > tex-common/groupname: UNKNOWN > > > > That looks like an untrapped error from debconf, off-hand. debconf will > > return strings like "UNKNOWN THIS OR THAT" on error, and it looks like > > it was truncated to just UNKNOWN. > > and in postinst: > db_get tex-common/managecache || true > if [ $RET = true ] ; then > db_get tex-common/groupname || true > GROUP="$RET" > if [ -n "$GROUP" ] ; then This is exactly what I was expecting to see. Wrap the last bit in an `if getent group $RET` or similar to do some error checking on what debconf gives back. I can't remember now where I've seen this sort of debconf breakage in the past, so I can't immediately give you a usable reference now, sorry. I only have this faint idea that I have seen exactly this sort of thing before. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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