Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>   GROUP=$(stat --format="%G" /var/cache/fonts 2>/dev/null)
> 
> On this machine (currently):
> 
> dixsept:~> echo ".$(/usr/bin/stat --format="%G" /var/cache/fonts)."
> .UNKNOWN.

Ahh, so I assume that /var/cache/fonts exists, but it is owned by a
group id NOT listed in /etc/groups, so stat cannot find it.

This is funny that something like this happens. But we have to cater for
it.

So at least we know that it is NOT a debconf db_get error, but a problem
with the group name.

Thanks for the continued support, next version should fix this.

Best wishes

Norbert

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