Bug#236246: tetex-bin: xdvi freezes after first font is built

[Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-9
Severity: important

Recently (this version of tetex-bin and the previous, at least), when
xdvi needs a font and calls mktexpk, mktexpk builds the font
successfully (gsftopk for me), but xdvi freezes with a busy cursor.  I
can kill the X-window, but the xdvi process does not die, and I can't
Ctrl-c out from it on the shell command-line.  I have to Ctrl-z to
quit, then kill it with e.g. kill %1.  If you run xdvi again on the
same dvi file, the one font built last time is there and available,
but it will hang again on the next one that needs to be built.  I'm
running Xdvi with -not1lib.  I'll provide more information as
available with further tests as I have time to do them.  It seems that
somehow the call to mktexpk is not actually returning so that Xdvi is
waiting on it even though it's done; but that is not the only possibility. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.13       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.7.2        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                        1.10.18.1    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                          0.2-20       The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.3-1    GCC support library
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-3      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkpathsea3                2.0.2-9      path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1                   1.1.14       Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.5.0-5    PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-3      X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5                     5.0.0-5      Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libwww-ssl0 [libwww0]       5.4.0-9      The W3C-WWW library (SSL support)
ii  libx11-6                    4.3.0-3      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw7                     4.3.0-3      X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                    4.3.0-3      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu6                     4.3.0-3      X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxt6                      4.3.0-3      X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  mime-support                3.26-1       MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                        5.8.3-2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                         4.0.7-4      The GNU sed stream editor
ii  tetex-base                  2.0.2-6      Basic library files of teTeX
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-3      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-4    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/cnf_name: 
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
* tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
* tetex-bin/upd_map: true
* tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
* tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/hyphen: greek, italian, latin, portuges, russian, spanish
  tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: false
* tetex-bin/groupname: users