Bug 1212571

Hmmm ...

 texlive/2023> rpm -qvf /etc/texmf/ls-R
 texlive-filesystem-2023.198-0.noarch

 texlive/2023> zypper info --requires texlive-scheme-small | grep texlive-collection-basic
     texlive-collection-basic >= 2023

 texlive/2023> zypper info --requires texlive-collection-basic | grep texlive-scripts
     texlive-scripts >= 2023

and finally

 texlive/2023> rpm -q -R texlive-scripts | grep texlive-filesystem
 texlive-filesystem >= 2023
 texlive-filesystem >= 2023
 texlive-filesystem >= 2023

... also texlive-kpathsea and texlive-kpathsea-bin are required

Please try as root

  VERBOSE=debug /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force

and attach the resulting /tmp/update.<random_string>

Created attachment 868616 [details]
After VERBOSE=debug /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force

(In reply to Istvan Beregszaszi from comment #2)
> Created attachment 868616 [details]
> After VERBOSE=debug /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force

Call as root

  mktexlsr --verbose

and show output here, thanks.

# mktexlsr --verbose
mktexlsr: Updating /etc/texmf...
TeX::LSR: ls-R file does not exists, skipping: /etc/texmf/ls-R
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf...
mktexlsr: cannot read files, skipping: /usr/local/share/texmf
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf...
TeX::LSR: ls-R file does not exists, skipping: /usr/share/texmf/ls-R
mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/texmf/fonts...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/texmf/fonts/texmf...
mktexlsr: cannot read files, skipping: /var/cache/texmf/fonts/texmf
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf...
TeX::LSR: ls-R file does not exists, skipping: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
mktexlsr: Done.


# ls -l /usr/share/texmf/ls-R 
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 24 Jul  5 13:37 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/main/ls-R

# ls -l /var/lib/texmf/main/ls-R
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/texmf/main/ls-R': No such file or directory

... strange as

rpm -qvl texlive-filesystem | grep ls-R
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mktex                      67 Jul  5 13:37 /etc/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root                       24 Jul  5 13:37 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/main/ls-R
-rw-rw-r--    1 mktex    mktex                      67 Jul  5 13:37 /var/cache/texmf/fonts/ls-R
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mktex                  494341 Jul  5 13:37 /var/lib/texmf/dist/ls-R
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mktex                      67 Jul  5 13:37 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mktex                  494341 Jul  5 13:37 /var/lib/texmf/main/ls-R

and I guess that texlive-filesystem is installed due to the
dependencies ... or do you have set a package lock .. please
check

  rpm -q texlive-filesystem
  ls -l /etc/texmf/ls-R

# rpm -q texlive-filesystem
texlive-filesystem-2023.208-60.1.noarch
# ls -l /etc/texmf/ls-R
ls: cannot access '/etc/texmf/ls-R': No such file or directory

Running in fresh opensuse/tumbleweed:latest container, so everything's default.

This is a wild guess, but maybe these files owned by the mktex group could not install?

# rpm -qvl texlive-filesystem | grep mktex | grep ^-
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root  mktex      67 Jul  5 13:37 /etc/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mktex mktex      67 Jul  5 13:37 /var/cache/texmf/fonts/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root  mktex  494341 Jul  5 13:37 /var/lib/texmf/dist/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root  mktex      67 Jul  5 13:37 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root  mktex  494341 Jul  5 13:37 /var/lib/texmf/main/ls-R

None of them exists (except for /var/cache/texmf/fonts/ls-R, but seems it was generated later.)

... that would be mean that the dependencies

 Requires(pre):  user(mktex)
 Requires(pre):  group(mktex)

of texlive-filesystem are not fulfilled or in other words the
package system-user-mktex has not been installed or not done
its job during installation

 texlive/2023> rpm -q --whatprovides 'user(mktex)'
 system-user-mktex-1.0.0-2.7.noarch

...

 texlive/2023> rpm -qf /usr/lib/sysusers.d/system-user-mktex.conf
 system-user-mktex-1.0.0-2.7.noarch

... what I wonder is that a missing user/group does not break the installation of texlive-scheme-small

Normal installation in a minimal Tumbleweed VM (no TeXLive beside one font) requires with texlive-scheme-small automagic system-user-mktex and I see

  localhost:~ # grep mktex /etc/passwd
  mktex:x:467:467:System user for mktex:/var/cache/texmf/fonts/usr/sbin/nologin

... seems to be a container problem here

Created attachment 868617 [details]
zypper in --force texlive-filesystem

User/group is correct:

# rpm -q --whatprovides 'group(mktex)'
system-user-mktex-1.0.0-2.7.noarch


However, force reinstalling texlive-filesystem reveals failed calls to /usr/bin/setpriv (see attachment).

Replacing busybox-util-linux with util-linux fixes the issue.

Indeed in post scriplet of texlive-filesystem there is shell code which does

 for dir in      %{_texmfconfdir}        \
                 %{_fontcache}           \
                 %{_texmfvardir}         \
                 %{_texmfvardir}/dist    \
                 %{_texmfvardir}/main
 do
     test "$dir" = %{_fontcache} && user=%{texusr} || user=root
     setpriv --reuid $user --regid %{texgrp} --init-groups /bin/sh -ec "
         tmp=\$(mktemp ${dir}/ls-R.XXXXXX)
         chmod 0664 \${tmp}
         echo '%% ls-R -- filename database for kpathsea; do not change this line.' > \${tmp}
         mv \${tmp} ${dir}/ls-R" || error=1
 done

texlive-scheme-medium and up pulls in standard util-linux through transitive dependencies, so that's why it worked.

Filed a ticket upstream for good measure. https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15712

Thank you for the help!

This setpriv approach I've choosen due to a bug report and suggestion of the security people here around.

Maybe I should add a conflict to busybox many builtins are not usable, also having TeXLive installed requires a powerful system which (IMHO) should make use of a powerful shell and powerful tools (like setpriv from util-linux, as well as ed from ed, find from findutils, sed from sed, and grep from grep)

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1212571) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1142250 Factory / texlive-filesystem

(In reply to OBSbugzilla Bot from comment #14)
> This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
> This bug (1212571) was mentioned in
> https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1142250 Factory / texlive-filesystem

Try to avoid the missing features of setpriv from util-linux by require util-linux instead of /usr/bin/setpriv (we really depend on that)