Re: tetex-bin: formats not build [solved]
On 03.02.04 Jérémie Knuesel (elendur@freesurf.ch) wrote:
Hi,
> Surprinsigly enough, the problem was solved with the following
> command: apt-get install -t testing fileutils
>
drachi:~# apt-cache show fileutils |tail -3
Description: The GNU file management utilities (transitional package)
Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed.
drachi:~#
Hmmm.
> When Frank Küster sent me a copy of omxcmex.fd, which I saved in my
> home directory, it appeared that the file was not listed by a
> simple 'ls' command. However it could be seen with nautilus, mc...
> Also, the 'ls' command had been displaying a boring message for
> some days:
>
> ls: unrecognized prefix: do
> ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable.
>
> And the colours were indeed not working.
>
> All these problems (and the problem of tetex-base/bin and the
> formats too) were solved when I installed a new version of
> fileutils:
>
What version of Debian are you running? stable, unstable, testing?
drachi:~# dpkg -S /bin/ls
coreutils: /bin/ls
drachi:~#
> suddenly the missing file appeared in
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ (there was no need to copy Frank's
> file). It seems that for some reason, the system was only partly
> able to find this one file, precisely! Maybe it also explains why
> "kpsewhich omxcmex.fd" only found the file when the current
> directory was /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base ...
>
Well, were your ls-R files perhaps empty? And yes, that can be
explained by an non-working ls.
> Now if someone has an idea of what was going on... I hope it was
> not a side effect of a malicious rootkit!
>
Well -- I hope not, but what made your ls to stop working?
Hilmar
P.S.: All output from a testing system as of August 2003.
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