Bug#204953: tetex-bin: Same Problem (maybe)
Tyson Whitehead <twhitehe@uwo.ca> wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-22
> Followup-For: Bug #204953
>
> I can't quite read the original bug report, but I may have experienced
> the same problem.
You should have read it - this is something completely different. The
original bugreport was about a missing dvipdfm/config file.
> Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-22) ...
[...]
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
> /kpsewhich: No such file or directory
> kpsewhich: :79: : Assertion `' failed.
> dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> tetex-bin
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
This looks like a path is missing somewhere. I never debugged C programs
- does the 79 point to anything useful?
> I tried all sorts of stuff (including creating a /kpathsea symlink to
> /usr/bin/kpathsea). Nothing worked until I noticed there was a
> libkpathsea3 package. After purging and reinstall it, tetex-bin
> installed fine.
>
> Strange that none of this happened on my other box when I did the
> update install routine. Maybe there was a wonky libkpathsea3 package
> released at one time that permanently damaged its configuration files?
No, the contents of the libkpathsea3 package have not changed for ages
(except for the changelog, which is shared with the tetex-bin
package). And it does not have any configuration files.
It seems to me as if the binary files from libkpathsea3 were damaged on
your system, and fixed by reinstalling.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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