Bug#367559: [SPAM?]: Bug#367559: tetex-base: Package cannot be installed: fmtutil failed

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

severity 367559 important
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Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 22:16 -0400, Loris Bennett wrote:
>> Package: tetex-base
>> Version: 3.0-17
>> Severity: critical

I'm setting this to important, because it isn't a teTeX bug, as Ralf
pointed out, and we don't know yet whether an other package or a local
installation is responsible.  Anyway, critical was not the right
severity from the start (no unrelated packages are broken, no security
holes, etc.), but serious; but both are RC so that doesn't make a huge
difference. 

> Thanks for reporting. Let's limit this to where the actual error occurs: 
>
>> fmtutil: running `pdfetex -ini   -jobname=cont-en -progname=context 
>> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *cont-en.ini' ...
>> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
>>  (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/web2c/cp227.tcx)
>> entering extended mode
>> (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/context/config/cont-en.ini
>> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
>> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex
> [many more files]
>> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/symb-nav.tex))
[...]
> You have installed a recent ConTeXt in /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/,
> right? All the files that are loaded above are not part of tetex-base.
> And at the first file that is loaded from tetex-base (after the ini
> file), an error occurs: 

Did you build or download a Debian package for ConTeXt, or did you
install this "by hand"?  In the latter case, you should have installed
into /usr/local/share/texmf.  But of course that doesn't affect the
bug. 

> I have no idea what this error means, but most likely the old cont-usr.tex
> from tetex-base is incompatible with the new ConTeXt files you installed
> in /usr/share/texmf/. I don't think this is a bug in teTeX. ;-) Is there
> no cont-usr.tex in the new ConTeXt? That one should take precedence over
> the one in /usr/share/texmf-tetex/.

The current context-tfm.zip on CTAN does contain cont-usr.tex, so it
should be there.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)