freevo install is unable to create 'directories'

[Wim Delvaux]

Package: freevo
Version: 1.7.6.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


when I run dpkg --configure I get this output


Setting up freevo (1.7.6.1-1) ...
WARNING: 'freevo' user cannot create files in cache directory  /home/freevo/cache ,
  freevo will malfunction
WARNING: 'freevo' user cannot create files in log directory  /home/freevo/log ,
  freevo will malfunction
WARNING: 'freevo' user cannot create files in static directory  /home/freevo/static ,
  freevo will malfunction
Creating video directory  for freevo
mkdir: cannot create directory `': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing freevo (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

However

root at GCV:/home/u19809/public_html/www/apdemo# ls -lR /home/freevo/
/home/freevo/:
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 freevo freevo 4096 2008-06-23 16:30 cache
drwxrwxr-x 2 freevo freevo 4096 2008-06-23 16:30 log
drwxrwxr-x 2 freevo freevo 4096 2008-06-23 16:30 static

/home/freevo/cache:
total 0

/home/freevo/log:
total 0

/home/freevo/static:
total 0

and in password file

freevo:x:121:112::/home/freevo:/bin/false

Thx



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy-proposed'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages freevo depends on:
ii  adduser             3.105ubuntu1         add and remove users and groups
ii  console-tools       1:0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu7 Linux console and font utilities
ii  debconf             1.5.20               Debian configuration management sy
ii  freevo-data         1.7.6.1-1            Themes and non-application data fo
ii  lsdvd               0.16-3               read the content info of a DVD
ii  mplayer             2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13  The Ultimate Movie Player For Linu
ii  python              2.5.2-0ubuntu1       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central      0.6.7ubuntu0.1       register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-freevo       1.7.6.1-1            Python modules for Freevo

Versions of packages freevo recommends:
ii  cdparanoia          3.10+debian~pre0-6   audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  libxmltv-perl       0.5.51-2ubuntu2      Perl libraries related to the XMLT
ii  xine-ui             0.99.5+cvs20070914-2 the xine video player, user interf
ii  xmltv-util          0.5.51-2ubuntu2      Utilities related to the XMLTV fil

-- debconf information:
  freevo/display: x11
  freevo/path_to_audio:
  freevo/path_to_image:
  freevo/norm: ntsc
  freevo/title_image:
  freevo/chanlist: us-bcast
  freevo/geometry: 800x600
  freevo/title_audio:
  freevo/path_to_recordings: /home/freevo/recordings
  freevo/start_on_boot:
  freevo/path_to_video:
  freevo/title_video:
  freevo/services: xserver, recordserver, encodingserver