Bug#62170: tetex-bin (alpha): fmtutil, texlinks segfault during setup

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

aban@cw025.cm.utexas.edu writes:
 > Package: tetex-bin
 > Version: 1.0.6-4
 > Severity: grave
 > Architecture: alpha
 > 
 > Setup of tetex-bin can't be completed due to segmentation
 > faults in fmtutil and texlinks.  This only happens on my
 > alpha box, x86 is ok (both are Debian woody/unstable release,
 > kernel version 2.2.14).  Output from dpkg follows.
 > 
 > Andrew Ban
 > 
 > Setting up tetex-bin (1.0.6-4) ...
 > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
 > mktexlsr: Updating /var/spool/texmf/ls-R... 
 > mktexlsr: Done.
 > Running initex. This may take some time. ...
 > /usr/bin/texconfig: line 1: 25263 Segmentation fault      fmtutil --all
 > /usr/bin/texconfig: line 2: 25289 Segmentation fault      texlinks ${SILENT_TEXLINKS+-s}
 > /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst: line 83: 25225 Segmentation fault      $TEXCONFIG_P init >$TEMPFILE

Seems to be a problem with your shell (sh) on alpha. Which shell are
you using? Is the problem going away if you use another sh?

Christoph