Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Note that this can happen when the group name is defined by NIS,
> but when the upgrade occurs, the NIS client isn't running (though
> the problem here occurred for another reason).
Ok, so doing it the numeric way in this case also makes sense.
> BTW, when I wanted to fix the group name (gid) with
> "dpkg-reconfigure tex-common", the BackSpace key (generating ^?)
> didn't work to erase the value. I was connected via ssh. I suppose
> this is a bug too.
This is most probably not a bug but a misconfiguration of your terminal
settings.
Best wishes
Norbert
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