Re: Bug#79213: no texmf.cnf file: cannot install tetex on up-to-date woody

[sander@rotzorg.org]

Hi Christoph,

I did try to reinstall tetex-bin... but this did not work. i completely removed tetex-base, tetex-bin tetex-lib and tetex-extra from my system and reinstalled them.

My disk is not full. If i only unpack tetex-bin (dpkg --unpack tetex-bin_1.0.7+200000807-5_i386.deb) i get the texmf.cnf.dpkg-new files, but after configuring they are gone. Here's a piece of output.

equalizer:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg --unpack tetex-bin_1.0.7+20000807-5_i386
.deb 
^[(Reading database ... 32503 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tetex-bin 1.0.7+20000807-5 (using tetex-bin_1.0.7+20000807-
5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tetex-bin ...
equalizer:/var/cache/apt/archives# ls -alF /etc/texmf/
total 35
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Dec 10 16:08 ./
drwxr-xr-x   65 root     root         5120 Dec 10 14:23 ../
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         3072 Dec 10 00:54 dvips/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2725 Oct  2 17:38 fmtutil.cnf.dpkg-new
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          635 Oct  2 17:38 mktex.cnf.dpkg-new
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Dec 10 00:54 pdftex/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        19620 Oct  2 17:38 texmf.cnf.dpkg-new
equalizer:/var/cache/apt/archives# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              1484386   1301315    106361  93% /
/dev/hda1              2597400   2492992    104408  96% /dos
stereo:/mp3             488038    283970    178868  62% /mnt
equalizer:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg --configure tetex-bin 
Setting up tetex-bin (1.0.7+20000807-5) ...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Done.
/usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN in texmf.cnf file.
/usr/bin/texconfig: set TEXMFCNF variable to the directory where teTeX's texmf.c
nf file is in.
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tetex-bin
equalizer:/var/cache/apt/archives# ls -alF /etc/texmf/
total 10
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Dec 10 16:18 ./
drwxr-xr-x   65 root     root         5120 Dec 10 14:23 ../
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         3072 Dec 10 00:54 dvips/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Dec 10 00:54 pdftex/
equalizer:/var/cache/apt/archives# 

I am a long time Debian GNU user and really can't figure this out. I've looked in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.preinst and .postinst and /usr/bin/texconfig but didn't really understand these scripts.

You can always ask me more question, i hope you can help me out,

greets,
Sander

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:41:26PM +0100, Christoph Martin wrote:
> tags 79213 +moreinfo
> thanks
... 
> May it have been, that your disk was full, so that the confiles could
> not be written?
> 
> What happens if you try to reinstall tetex-bin?
> 
> C