Bug#348513: [SPAM?]: Bug#348513: tetex-doc: tetexdoctk fails with "Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc"

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Joshua Lee <joshua613@gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: tetex-doc
> Version: 3.0-11
> Severity: important
>
> texdoctk says "Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc." 
> then has a segmentation fault. 

If a perl script fails to open a file, it shouldn't give a *segfault*.
Can you please send us the exact output?

> I've tried removing then reinstalling,
> but that doesn't seem to help.

What's the output of 

ls -l /etc/texdoctk/

I speculate that there is no file /etc/texdoctk/texdocrc.  Since this
file is a conffile, removing and reinstalling won't restore it; instead
you need to purge and reinstall.

Do you have an idea why the file was removed?

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer