Bug#907380: tex-common: setting up of tex-common fails

[fulvio ciriaco <oivulf@gmail.com>]

Dear Norbert,

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:07:54 +0200,
Norbert Preining wrote:
> 
> tag 907380 + unreproducible moreinfo
> severity 907380 minor
> thanks
> 
> > /usr/sbin/update-updmap: line 235: bin/mkdir: No such file or directory
> 
> This line contains a call to
> 	mkdir -p ...
> if mkdir is not available, then you have probably messed up your PATH
> setting or have a destroyed system, because
> 	/bin/mkdir
> is provided by coreutils.
>
Messed or destroyed? I don't think so:

0% which mkdir        
/bin/mkdir

root@fulvio:/home/fc# update-updmap 
Regenerating '/var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN'... done.
Regenerating '/var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-TEXLIVEDIST'... done.
update-updmap has updated the following file(s):
	/var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
	/var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-TEXLIVEDIST
If you want to activate the changes in the above file(s),
you should run updmap-sys or updmap.

the log says bin/mkdir is missing, but line 235 recites:
mkdir -p "$destdir"

Last but not least, the problem exists on two different computers of
mine, independently installed, though there is a large overlap of
installed software. The problem is very recent but hundreds of
packages have been upgraded without problem.

regards
Fulvio

> I see that you have AppArmor enabled, maybe this interferes.
> 
> 
> 
> Norbert
> 
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