Bug#279673: /tmp/tetex-base.postinst.XXGz7hPC

[Nigel Stephens <nigel@mips.com>]

Frank Küster wrote:

> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > When trying to call:
> >
> > fmtutil --byfmt mf
> >
> > does that run through? If yes: does calling again
> > "dpkg-reconfigure tetex-base" give you a correctly installed package?
> >    
>
> And if no, please execute (as root)
>
> strace -o mpost.trace mpost -ini   -jobname=mpost -progname=mpost mpost.mp
>
> and send us the resulting file mpost.trace in the current directory.
>
>  

Hilmar/Frank

The fmtutil command didn't work, but I managed to fix the problem by 
doing a forced re-install of tetex-bin, tetex-base and tetex-extra. I 
guess that means that you can close this bug report.

Thanks for your help.

Nigel