Bug#221518: tetex-bin: Fails to install after upgrade

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

From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Subject: Bug#221518: tetex-bin: Fails to install after upgrade
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:11:36 -0600

> > - Is this a fresh installation or upgrading?
> 
> An upgrade.
> 
> > - What is outputs of "ls -l /var/lib/texmf/ls-R"
> 
> # ls -l /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     users           0 Nov 12 06:27 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R

So the problem happened on upgrade and ls-R became an empty 
file at some instance.

To fix the problem, perhaps it will be sufficient to remove 
ls-R and run "dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin" but, if possible,
we'd like to find the reason of empty ls-R.

I've no idea at present, or rather, there are too many 
possibilities.

disk might be full at some instance?
some particular debconf settings on lsr-perms etc. and
some action by some user?
ohter package's (possibly wrong) action on ls-R?
etc. etc.

Are there any users other than yourself?
Do you install non-familiar TeX related packges which
might fiddle with ls-R?
Can't you guess something which could cause empty ls-R?

Regards,			2003-11-21(Fri)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima