Bug#279042: Bug#273789: tetex-base: fmtutil.cnf not found
Thomas Heimroth <theimrot@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:29:07PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> strace -o xdvi.trace xdvi
>> >>
>> > I wouldn't do it that way. There is the shell program, which sets
>> > some ENV variables IIRC. I think it's a better idea to copy
>> > /usr/bin/xdvi into the home dir, edit it appropriatly and then call
>> > it typing "./xdvi filename".
>>
>> Uups, I forgot that. But I would suggest a different approach:
>>
>> 1. First, find out whether it needs a filename to get the error, as
>> described before
>>
>> 2. Then, find out whether the error also occurs when xdvi.real is called
>> directly:
>>
>> /usr/bin/xdvi.real $filename; echo $?
> Here it will be create no error. The output is "0". And the xdvi-programm
> starts.
>
>>
>> or just
>>
>> /usr/bin/xdvi; echo $?
> Here comes the error-number "9".
So it seems to be an error in the Perl script, or with your Perl
installation. Indeed the trace shows that the command fails before
xdvi.bin is even called.
Unfortunately, I don't know much about debugging perl. I'll read and
come back to you; of course I appreciate any help from the other
maintainers.
For the time being, you can try to "apt-get --reinstall install"
perl-base and perl-modules.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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