Package: debian-security-support Version: 2014.09.07~bpo70+1 Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I installed debian-security-support using dselect, from a root account (UID=0). The shell variable TMPDIR was set as follows, export TMPDIR='/home/jsroot/temp' * What was the outcome of this action? Here is the output from dselect, Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: debian-security-support 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/19.2 kB of archives. After this operation, 196 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 179016 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking debian-security-support (from .../debian-security-support_2014.09.07~bpo70+1_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up debian-security-support (2014.09.07~bpo70+1) ... mktemp: failed to create directory via template `/home/jsroot/temp/debian-security-support.XXXXX': Permission denied dpkg: error processing debian-security-support (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: debian-security-support Here is the dpkg status of the package, # dpkg-query -l debian-security-support Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= iF debian-securit 2014.09.07~b all Debian security support coverage Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debian-security-support depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49 ii gettext-base 0.18.3-1~bpo7+1 debian-security-support recommends no packages. debian-security-support suggests no packages. -- debconf information: debian-security-support/limited: debian-security-support/ended: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org