Bug#242554: tetex-bin: fmtutils segfaults on update (ppc)

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 07.04.04 Wolfram Quester (wolfi@mittelerde.physik.uni-konstanz.de) wrote:

Hi!

> Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-11) ...
> Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> /usr/bin/fmtutil: line 730:  4509 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ${1+"$@"}
> Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini'
> failed
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/lambda.oft installed.

> If I do an "apt-get install tetex-bin" later on, it works, but doing an
> "apt-get install --reinstall tetex-bin" gives me the above segfault
> again.
> 
And I guess it is reproducible and happens everytime exactly at the
same place, i.e. it can not be reduced to flaky hardware?
You've got a core dump, but I guess pdftex was not compiled as debug
version and hence that thing will be useless.

H.
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sigmentation fault