Bug#170563: More info about bug#170563

[Laurent Bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr>]

Hi,

I was experiencing a similar problem with tetex-extra. I had 2 machines:
one where tetex-extra did not configure and one where it did.

The problem on the broken machine came from a difference in
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf:

$ diff -u /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf texmf.cnf
--- /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf        2002-12-10 13:55:03.000000000 +0100
+++ texmf.cnf   2002-12-10 13:36:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@
 TEXINPUTS.mex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{mex,plain,generic,}//
 TEXINPUTS.texinfo = .;$TEXMF/tex/{texinfo,plain,generic,}//

+% Settings for Debian xmltex
+TEXINPUTS.pdfxmltex = .;$TEXMF/{pdftex,tex}/{xmltex,plain,generic,}//
 % LaTeX 2e specific macros are stored in latex/, macros that can only
be
 % used with 2.09 in latex209/.  In addition, we look in the directory
 % latex209, useful for macros that were written for 2.09 and do not
@@ -322,27 +324,6 @@



-%
-% Added by Alml (typesetting system)
-%
-% These settings will override what is contained inside the
-% file 95NonPath.
-%
-% Remember to do:
-%
-% # update-texmf
-%
-% to regenerate /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, and then remember to do also:
-%
-% # texconfig init
-%
-
-main_memory = 1000000
-font_mem_size = 800000
-pool_size = 250000
-hash_extra = 10000
-buf_size = 100000
-save_size = 40000
 %
    Part 2: Non-path options.

 % Write .log/.dvi/etc. files here, if the current directory is
unwritable.


I remove the alml settings by hand and then tetex-extra did configure.

Those settings come from /etc/texmf/texmf.d/94Alml. So you can try to
remove this file and run update-texmf or purge alml.