Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:
> From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around
> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:00:32 +0200
>
>> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:
>>
>> > Yes, calling fmtutil twice is intentional. A failure with
>> > "I'm stymied" message has been occured with jadetex fairy
>> > often and it can be fixed with the next (the second time)
>> > call of fmtutil.
>> >
>> > I have failed to find out the reason why it failed at first run
>> > of fmtutil but at least calling fmtutil twice has been a simple
>> > fix of this problem.
>>
>> Do you remember any bug numbers/titles? I would like to have a look at
>> this.
>
> I found at least #170963, #169825 with quick browsing through
> changelog.
In both cases, the format files where not generated, so fmtutil and the
postinst failed. This means the problem will at least not stay
undetected. And I doubt whether the current fix (grep for stymied and
run fmtutil again) works at all, because the postinst script is executed
set -e.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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