Bug#236246: tetex-bin: xdvi freezes after first font is built
Hi Stefan,
this might be a problem of mktexpk, but it could also be related to
xdvi. Perhaps you can have a look; Atsuhito could reproduce it.
Gruß und Dank, Frank
Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> schrieb:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-9
> Severity: important
>
> Recently (this version of tetex-bin and the previous, at least), when
> xdvi needs a font and calls mktexpk, mktexpk builds the font
> successfully (gsftopk for me), but xdvi freezes with a busy cursor. I
> can kill the X-window, but the xdvi process does not die, and I can't
> Ctrl-c out from it on the shell command-line. I have to Ctrl-z to
> quit, then kill it with e.g. kill %1. If you run xdvi again on the
> same dvi file, the one font built last time is there and available,
> but it will hang again on the next one that needs to be built. I'm
> running Xdvi with -not1lib. I'll provide more information as
> available with further tests as I have time to do them. It seems that
> somehow the call to mktexpk is not actually returning so that Xdvi is
> waiting on it even though it's done; but that is not the only possibility.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.23
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
> ii debconf 1.4.13 Debian configuration management sy
> ii debianutils 2.7.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii dpkg 1.10.18.1 Package maintenance system for Deb
> ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
> ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-1 GCC support library
> ii libice6 4.3.0-3 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-9 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 4.3.0-3 X Window System Session Management
> ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii libt1-5 5.0.0-5 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
> ii libwww-ssl0 [libwww0] 5.4.0-9 The W3C-WWW library (SSL support)
> ii libx11-6 4.3.0-3 X Window System protocol client li
> ii libxaw7 4.3.0-3 X Athena widget set library
> ii libxext6 4.3.0-3 X Window System miscellaneous exte
> ii libxmu6 4.3.0-3 X Window System miscellaneous util
> ii libxt6 4.3.0-3 X Toolkit Intrinsics
> ii mime-support 3.26-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
> ii perl 5.8.3-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
> ii sed 4.0.7-4 The GNU sed stream editor
> ii tetex-base 2.0.2-6 Basic library files of teTeX
> ii xlibs 4.3.0-3 X Window System client libraries m
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-4 compression library - runtime
>
> -- debconf information:
> * tetex-bin/cnf_name:
> * tetex-bin/texmf: true
> * tetex-bin/groupperm: true
> * tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
> * tetex-bin/upd_map: true
> * tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
> * tetex-bin/userperm: false
> * tetex-bin/hyphen: greek, italian, latin, portuges, russian, spanish
> tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
> * tetex-bin/use_debconf: false
> * tetex-bin/groupname: users
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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