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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Wolfram Quester <wolfi@mittelerde.physik.uni-konstanz.de> schrieb:

> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> /usr/bin/fmtutil: line 730:  3112 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ${1+"$@"}
> Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini'
> failed
[...]
> ###############################################################################
> fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
> Visit the log files in directory
>   /usr/share/texmf/web2c
> for details.
> ###############################################################################

Could you send us the file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.log, after
the program produced a segfault?

> 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.

Strange - if you don't "apt-get update" in between (or with dselect or
whatever), this will reinstall the same version. Do I understand right,
that the order of commands was:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
... segfault for the first time
apt-get install tetex-bin
... no segfault
apt-get install --reinstall tetex-bin
... segfault again?

Can you reproduce the last two steps?

What happens if you call the command manually, namely

pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini

after it just segfaulted, and after a working install?

What is the output of

which pdflatex
kpsewhich --progname pdflatex pdflatex.ini

Thank you,
Frank

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