Bug#245599: tetex-bin: mpost always fails with "Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied"
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-13
Severity: important
Tags: sid
I installed tetex-bin, and whenever I run it I get the following:
% mpost foo
This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied)
(Regardless of whether the file foo exists or not.) On a debian stable
system, I get:
% mpost foo
This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.7)
! I can't find file `foo'.
<*> foo
Please type another input file name:
and of course, if I give it an actual file, it does stuff.
I purged tetex-bin and tetex-base and reinstalled them to clean out old
config, and the behavior changes a bit but is still broken:
% mpost foo
This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mpost.mem
fmtutil: format `mpost' not available.
I can't find the mem file `mpost.mem'!
If you have any problems reproducing, let me know and I can give more
details.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.20 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-6 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-13 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww0 5.4.0-9 The W3C WWW library
ii libx11-6 4.3.0-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 4.3.0-7 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0-7 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 4.3.0-7 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.26-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.3-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.0.9-2 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 2.0.2-7 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 1.05 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-5 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
tetex-bin/upd_map: true
tetex-bin/cnf_name:
tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/hyphen:
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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