Bug#270407: tetex-base: inter-device move failed: `latex.fmt' to `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt'

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

C.J.Leune@uvt.nl (Kees Leune) wrote:

> Frank,
>
> Sorry for all the hassle. It turns out that someone who _had_ root access set
> the TEXFORMATS enviroment variable on a global level. The issue has been
> resolved by removing the variable. 
>
> By the way: I would still consider it a bug, but at least we have a cause now.

Hm, what do you consider a bug? That you can break teTeX by setting
inappropriate environment variables? That it doesn't recover? That it
does not give better debugging information?

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