Bug#232725: tetex-bin: Got the same error with 2.0.2-8 and 2.0.2-9

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Lars Brueckner <brueckner@ito.tu-darmstadt.de> schrieb:

> Am Freitag, 5. März 2004 19:58 schrieb Frank Küster:
>> Lars Brueckner <brueckner@ito.tu-darmstadt.de> schrieb:
>> > Am Freitag, 5. März 2004 12:53 schrieb Frank Küster:
>> >> That _does_ help. Next question:
>> >>
>> >> ls -l /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/
>> >> dlocate -L tetex-base | grep -i xdvi
>> >> locate tetex-base_2.0.2-6
>> >
>> > murphy:/tmp/bugtest# ls -l /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/
>> > insgesamt 4
>> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 2004-03-01 10:52 XDvi ->
>> > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1494
>> > 2004-03-04 05:38 xdvi.cfg
>>
>> And I assume the link target exists, as suggested by dlocate -L. So the
>> question is: Why does kpathsea not find the file? I think the answer
>> will be in
>>
>
> The link target does not exist (creating an empty file was the work-around).
> However, I think it was my fault. I had some troubles with X and I may have
> corrupted the whole /etc/X11/ during fixing this.

This might well be, but it isn't your fault that this stops the whole
installation. 

> So I recreated the empty /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi to complete the
> installation.
>
> Maybe initex could be modified to give a clear error message and 
> fail/complete it's task more gracefully.

It's the texconfig script that fails, and it _has_ a check and a clear
error message. It seems we are missing a dependency on a dialog
program. Could you please provide the output of

debconf-show debconf
dpkg -l dialog whiptail

Thank you.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie