Bug#244601: tetex-bin: package fails to configure: Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:44:28AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> schrieb:
>
>> > 2) tetex-bin (from woody) won't configure! It hangs forever while
>> > running "texconfig init". pstree shows me that it is stuck attempting
>> > to run "dialog".
>>
>> Yes, that's #232725, fixed in unstable. Didn't know that it also exists
>> in woody - for now just install dialog.
>
> It *is* installed.
[...]
> texconfig init hangs anyway.
Oh, this is getting deeper and deeper, and I doubt more and more that it
makes sense to debug this - at least if the problem results from the
downgrading. If you just want to help us in checking if removing
tetex-extra_1.x removes these files that shouldn't be there, one option
would be to purge the 2.0.2 tetex-packages, install the 1.0 packages,
remove them to check, and reinstall 2.0.2, all with --force-depends in
order to keep your system going. Be warned, after the purge a couple of
debconf questions will pop up upon reinstalling 2.0.2, some really
needed, some questionable and with bug reports open.
On the other hand, if you want to debug what is causing the postinst to
hang, the output of ps aux (and perhaps ps auxf alongside) would be
a first help. Or if you manage to edit the postinst before it is called,
by changing line 105 of the postinst from
$TEXCONFIG_P init > $TEMPFILE
to
/bin/sh -x $TEXCONFIG_P init > $TEMPFILE
I leave it to you whether you want to do all this: Since this has not
been reported before, it for sure not important enough to warrant a fix
in woody, and in unstable the problem can't occur (because we don't use
texconfig at all, so user interaction in postinst is "debconf clean"
with respect to redirections etc.).
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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