Bug#111365: fmtutils broken

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Hi Joey,

in summer we have picked up again this old bug; you have kept a backup
of the system from the time when the bug occured and provided some
information. You haven't answered the next questions that we had - can
you still help us with this? Or should we rather close the bug? (Or wait
until Christmas is over, or 3.0r4 is out or whatever?)

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> schrieb:
>
>> finlandia:/var/lib/nfs# head satu-debian/var/lib/texmf/ls-R
>> % ls-R -- filename database for kpathsea; do not change this line.
>> ./:
>> .:
>> ChangeLog
>> aliases
>> bibtex
>> context
>> dvips
>> etex
>> fontname
> [...]
>> finlandia:/var/lib/nfs# l satu-*/etc/texmf/{fmtutil.cnf,texmf.cnf}
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2725 Aug 21  2001 satu-debian/etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        19620 Sep  5  2001 satu-debian/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
>
> Are you sure that this is really a backup of the system just after the
> problem occured? Both error messages from the bug report ("No usable
> entries" and "fmtutil.cnf" not found) shouldn't occur with this setup. 
>
> Can you compare ftmtuil.cnf and texmf.cnf with the files from the
> tetex-bin deb in the apt cache?

This would be really helpful

Thanks, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer