Bug#171912: tetex-bin: (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20021025-4
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable
Hi,
Sorry if someone else reported this. After last upgrade from unstable
(yesterday) the tetex distribution became broken. Since then I have not
seen any reports about the problem, some bug reported in april 2002
appears to be similar. (Re: Bug#141086: tetex-bin: Puts files in
/usr/local follow thread backwards)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2002/debian-tetex-maint-200204/msg00109.html
Any attempt to run latex etc. results in fatal messages like:
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.9)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin fails (see output at end of report)
The same thing happened on two machines with slightly different config.
I will have a closer look at it tomorrow.
Best wishes
Urban
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux UrbAnette 2.4.19 #1 Wed Sep 25 17:29:00 UTC 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.16 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.0.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.9 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-19 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libkpathsea3 1.0.7+20021025-4 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5-6 PNG library - runtime
ii libwww0 5.4.0-5 The W3C WWW library
ii libxaw7 4.2.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii perl-tk 1:800.024-1.1 Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii t1lib1 1.3.1-1 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20021025-2 basic teTeX library files
ii xlibs 4.2.1-4 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-8 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/groupname: urban
* tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
UrbAnette:~# dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin
Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
Regenerating /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf ... done
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
Error: `tex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' failed
Error: `etex -ini -jobname=elatex -progname=elatex *elatex.ini' failed
Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini'
failed
Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex
*pdfelatex.ini' failed
###############################################################################
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
/usr/share/texmf/web2c
for details.
###############################################################################
This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
`tex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' failed
`etex -ini -jobname=elatex -progname=elatex *elatex.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini' failed
`pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex *pdfelatex.ini'
failed
Output of initex is in /tmp/texdAuIIa
If you want to change the default settings,
use /usr/bin/texconfig to configure teTeX.
Fixing permissions and group of ls-R as specified by debconf ...
mode of `/var/lib/texmf/ls-R' changed to 0664 (rw-rw-r--)
mode of `/var/cache/fonts/ls-R' changed to 0664 (rw-rw-r--)
changed group of `/var/lib/texmf/ls-R' to urban
changed group of `/var/cache/fonts/ls-R' to urban
UrbAnette:~# bu
build buildhash builtin bunzip2
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