Bug#439998: Something not honoring $TMPDIR in latest

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 29.08.07 Elliott Mitchell (ehem@m5p.com) wrote:

Hi,

> Setting up tetex-base (3.0.dfsg.3-5etch1) ...
> mktemp: cannot make temp dir /tmp/user/0/tmp.lVDrA16897: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> I'd guess somethings are honoring $TMPDIR, while some are not. This
> could be debconf, but so far I've only seen this with tetex-base
> (security updates).
> 
Can't really believe that there was an security update for
tetex-base. ;-)

Please add the followin two lines at the beginning of the file
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex.postinst (right after the #!/bin/sh)

exec 2> /tmp/outfile1.txt
set -x

and run again "dpkg --pending --configure". Inspect the
/tmp/outfile1.txt then.

H.
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