On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:03:54PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > Okay, I've attached a typescript and the output of ps ax. > > So it's either fmtutil.cnf that's missing, or the symlink from > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ to /var/lib/texmf/web2c. It appears to be the latter. $ ls -dl /var/lib/texmf/web2c /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 26 12:54 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 26 12:54 /var/lib/texmf/web2c Hmm, that's bad. Both are plain directories, and neither is a symlink. You might need directory-to-symlink migration logic like I have in XFree86. > Both should be installed from woody's tetex-bin (they are in it, not > created by some maintainer script). No idea what has happened. By the > way, if you just press enter on the hanging postinst, will it proceed (I > guess no)? It proceeds to fail: + set x init + shift + '[' '!' -r /usr/share/texmf/ls-R ']' + '[' '!' -r /usr/share/texmf/ls-R ']' + test -d /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config + test -d /usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config + test -d /usr/share/texmf/xdvi + test -d /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config + test -d /usr/share/texmf/etex/plain/config + test -d /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config + test -d /usr/share/texmf/web2c + test -f /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf + test -f /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi + test -f /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps + test -f /usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg + test '!' -f /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat + test '!' -f /usr/share/texmf/etex/plain/config/language.def + test '!' -f /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config/cont-usr.tex + test -f /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config/cont-usr.tex + test '!' -f /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf + exist_test -f /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf 'fmtutil.cnf file' + type=-f + name=/usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf + what=fmtutil.cnf file + '[' '!' -f /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ']' + msg=Could not find fmtutil.cnf file. + test -f /tmp/texconf2421/logfile + msg=Could not find fmtutil.cnf file.\n\nThe programm will exit now. + run_dialog --msgbox 'Could not find fmtutil.cnf file.\n\nThe programm will exit now.' 23 80 + cls + test -z '' + tty + clear + test -n /usr/bin/dialog + /usr/bin/dialog --title 'teTeX setup utility' --msgbox 'Could not find fmtutil.cnf file.\n\nThe programm will exit now.' 23 80 [ I pressed enter here.] + cls + test -z '' + tty + clear + test -f /tmp/texconf2421/logfile + exit_return 1 + setreturn 1 + return 1 + exit 1 dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tetex-base -- G. Branden Robinson | I'm not going to waste my precious Debian GNU/Linux | flash memory with Perl when I can branden@debian.org | do so much more with it. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Joey Hess
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