Bug#183845: tetex-bin: texconfig hangs forever in postinst with defunct child

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Ben Armstrong <ben@bgpc.dymaxion.ca>
Subject: Bug#183845: tetex-bin: texconfig hangs forever in postinst with defunct child
Date: 10 Mar 2003 11:50:18 -0400

> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 20:04, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > fundamentally, the problem was wrong environment variables 
> > settings.  If root set wrong environment variable then even
> > "su -" caused the problem.
> 
> You would think so.  But the environment of the shell from which I did
> "su" did not have any of the variables set that texconfig was
> complaining about.  Neither does the su shell look like it has any of
> these variables set.  Nevertheless, as soon as I changed from using "su"
> to "su -" the postinst no longer hung.  So how do you explain that? 
> Maybe it is not wrong TeX environment settings, but rather some other
> unexpected envrionment settings that later lead to these variables being
> set incorrectly by one of TeX's configuration routines (either
> maintainer script or upstream routine).

Then why texconfig worked in "su -" environment?

Please try to investigate your private settings a bit
more.

It might help you to read README.Debian, especially

Installation Instructions:

and 

How to report a bug:

Thanks,				2003-3-11(Tue)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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