Re: update-menus failed?
On Aug 29, 1997, at 16:18, joost witteveen wrote:
> > shell-init: could not get current
> > directory: get\cwd: cannot access parent directories
>
> This I don't understand. I wrote update-menus, and I've
> seen quite a few error messages from update-menus. But
> I've never seen this one (nor do I ever expect this).
> the place at which it comes makes it actually rather unlikely
> that it's from update-menus: update-menus only continues working
> _after_ dpkg finished, which is usually after you have your prompt
> back. This message seems to have come before any command prompt,
> so I suspect it's from the netscape postinst.
>
> I cannot check now, cause I've got a very old netscape package
> installed here, and that one doesn't to update-menus at all.
>
> > Is this of any importance? Is there anything I can do to fix this? I
> > think I remember a post regarding this issue a while ago, something
> > like there is a command spawned by root that runs as a different user,
> > and that user doesn't have read access to all the directories in the
> > path to a certain file. Is this it?
>
> Possible. Take a look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/netscape.postinst,
> and see what it does after it says " Installation OK. Hit RETURN.".
> maybe that gives a clue?
These are the LAST lines in that file. I've edited the "print" lines
to make them fit in 80 columns.
== Start of Excerpt =================================================
#
# Print info message
#
print "- Netscape will not be able to ... unless you set\n";
print " the \"external ... /usr/.../movemail\". Changing\n";
print " the permissions ... (as suggested by Netscape) will\n";
print " introduce a small ... some circumstances, could\n";
print " allow someone else to get access to another's mail.\n";
#
# Remaining postinst stuff
#
if (-x "/usr/bin/update-menus") {
system "/usr/bin/update-menus";
}
## local variables:
## tab-width: 8
## end:
== End of Excerpt ===================================================
So, it looks like there is nothing in that script seemingly wrong.
> Thanks,
> joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
Au contraire, thank you.
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