Bug#63029: error in tetex-extra

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

Richard P. Groenewegen writes:
 > 
 > Package: tetex-extra
 > Version: 1.0-10
 > 
 > While installing I get the following error:
 > 
 > Setting up tetex-extra (1.0-10) ...
 > texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
 > texhash: Updating /var/spool/texmf/ls-R...
 > texhash: Done.
 > Running initex for missing formats. This may take some time. ...
 > fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex
 > *pdfelatex.ini' failed.
 > dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--configure):
 >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
 > Errors were encountered while processing:
 >  tetex-extra
 > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
 > 
 > I am using Debian 1.2 (potato), Linux version 2.2.6, libc-2.1.3.
 > tetex-lib v1.0.6-6, tetex-base v1.0-10, tetex-bin v1.0.6-6
 > 

pdfelatex.ini should be in 

/usr/share/texmf/pdfetex/latex/config/pdfelatex.ini

Why, don't you have that? Was your disk full?

Christoph