[Localization] language pack error

[Myckel Habets]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:01:05 +0900
Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> 

Hello,

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Myckel Habets
> <myckel at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > The Dutch language pack seems to throw an error when trying to
> > install it.
> >
> > chown missing operand after 'olpc:olpc'
> > Try 'chown --help' for more information.
> >
> > The language files don't seem to get installed.
>     How did you confirm that?  If you obserbed only the error,
> language files seemed to get installed properly. (see below)

I looked at the timestamps of the translation files. These were still
the old ones (not the same as in the package). But I could be mistaken.

> 
> >
> > Are there more people who encountered this error? Any solutions?
>    I have seen similar behavior with langpack for my language
> (Japanese).
> 
>    By "./*_lang_pack_v2.sh --keep --noexec", you could unpack contents
> the pack and review setup.sh in it.
>    The error message should come from this line:
> 
>        find /home/olpc/Activities -uid 0 -print0 | xargs -0 chown
> olpc:olpc
> 
>    It try to fix file owner if there is something wrong.

Owner of the files and dir are olpc:olpc, so that looks right.

>    So if "xargs -0 chown olpc:olpc" balk no argument error, there
> should not any wrong stuff on your box :-)
> 
>    hope this helps.
> /Korakurider

Thanks, I'll have a further look into this.

Cheers,

Myckel

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