Bug#173684: tetex-bin won't install

[Rudy Gevaert <rudy@webworm.org>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20021025-6
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux webworm 2.4.19 #7 SMP Wed Oct 16 21:30:34 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.2.20           Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils             2.0.4            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                    1.10.9           Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                      0.2-19           The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                   2.3.1-5          GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libkpathsea3            1.0.7+20021025-6 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.5-8          PNG library - runtime
ii  libwww0                 5.4.0-5          The W3C WWW library
ii  libxaw7                 4.2.1-4          X Athena widget set library
ii  perl-tk                 1:800.024-1.1    Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii  t1lib1                  1.3.1-1          Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  tetex-base              1.0.2+20021025-3 basic teTeX library files
ii  xlibs                   4.2.1-4          X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.1.4-8        compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/cnf_name: 
* tetex-bin/groupname: rudy
  tetex-bin/userperm: false
  tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true

Previously my latex broke like mentionned in bug #170963.  Except that
it was about elatex, latex, pdflatex, ...

I then waited till bug #170963 got closed and was fixed.  What happend
today.

I then removed tetex-bin, and reinstalled it.  But tetex-bin wouldn't
even install.  It gave a postinstall error.

I then removed tetex-bin and tetex-base, and removed all left over
directories with texmf:

webworm:/# apt-get install tetex-bin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  tetex-base
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  tetex-base tetex-bin
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15  not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/20.7MB of archives. After unpacking 66.3MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package tetex-base.
(Reading database ... 88096 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tetex-base (from .../tetex-base_1.0.2+20021025-3_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package tetex-bin.
Unpacking tetex-bin (from .../tetex-bin_1.0.7+20021025-6_i386.deb) ...
Setting up tetex-base (1.0.2+20021025-3) ...

Setting up tetex-bin (1.0.7+20021025-6) ...
Something seems wrong.
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tetex-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


I can't even install tetex now...

Thank you in advance,

Rudy