Bug#179939: marked as done (tetex-base: Can't configure)
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Subject: tetex-base: Can't configure
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Package: tetex-base
Version: 1.0.2+20021025-7
Severity: normal
Setting up tetex-base (1.0.2+20021025-7) ...
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
cannot initialize curses
dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-bin:
tetex-bin depends on tetex-base (>= 1.0.2+20021025-4); however:
Package tetex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-extra:
tetex-extra depends on tetex-base (>= 1.0.2+20021025-4); however:
Package tetex-base is not configured yet.
tetex-extra depends on tetex-bin (>= 1.0.7+20021025-7); however:
Package tetex-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of jadetex:
jadetex depends on tetex-bin (>= 1.0.7+20011202-5.1); however:
Package tetex-bin is not configured yet.
jadetex depends on tetex-extra (>= 1.0.2+20000804-3); however:
Package tetex-extra is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing jadetex (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of docbook-utils:
docbook-utils depends on jadetex; however:
Package jadetex is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing docbook-utils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
tetex-base
tetex-bin
tetex-extra
jadetex
docbook-utils
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux stark.dyndns.tv 2.4.19 #6 Tue Sep 10 22:08:51 EDT 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages tetex-base depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.21 Debian configuration management system
ii dpkg 1.10.9 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii texinfo 4.3-1 Documentation system for on-line information
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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:03:28 +0000
From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>
To: 179939-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#179939: tetex-base: Can't configure
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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:55:21AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net> writes:
>
> > Could you purge tetex-{bin,base,extra} and reinstall? I think that's
> > most likely to fix this.
>
> Well I was pretty sure that would fix it, I thought you might want me not to
> so that you could figure out what went wrong.
>
> I've purged and reinstalled and the problem went away as expected.
Sometimes things seem to get just really confused, and this appears to
be one of them. ;-)
I think I'll close this bug report, since we're never likely to figure
out what actually happened.
Thanks!
Julian
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