Bug#245599: tetex-bin: mpost always fails with "Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied"
On 25.05.04 Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:
> On 23.05.04 Seth LaForge (sethml@ofb.net) wrote:
Hi Seth,
> > I tried installing tetex-extra, and mpost still doesn't work:
> >
> > % mpost foo
> > This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> > (Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied)
> > % dpkg -l 'tetex*'
> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> > ||/ Name Version Description
> > +++-==============-==============-============================================
> > ii tetex-base 2.0.2-7 Basic library files of teTeX
> > ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-13 The teTeX binary files
> > ii tetex-extra 2.0.2-7 Additional library files of teTeX
> >
> > So to me this seems to be an actual bug, not a packaging split issue.
> > Please let me know if you need more details.
> >
> I had only a short view into the changelog of tetex-base. We do
> remove formats, which were built during postinst of tetex-extra. So
> they should be regenerated during configure of a new tetex-extra.
>
> tetex-base (1.0.2+20021025-4) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * Removed FMT files when tetex-extra would be removed. Note,
> obsolete omaga.fmt and lambda.fmt would be removed with preinst
> of tetex-bin. [kohda] (Closes: #45930)
>
> -- Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:50:57 +0900
>
> I believe you had before an tetex-extra below that version on your
> HD. That tetex-extra were upgraded and didn't remove the formats
> during postrm. The new tetex-extra calls fmtutil --missing, but
> doesn't do anything. So mpost tries to read the old mem-file. I
> didn't have a look at #45930, but I guess it is that one you see
> here.
> Try to call /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-extra.postrm remove and then
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-extra.postinst configure .
>
Was is that now? Did you try what Frank and me recommended? Did that
help you? Can we close that bug, after updating the packages
description?^1 It says now that mpost won't work without tetex-extra.
H.
^1 Perhaps we should remove that formats in preinst too. I won't do
so until I'm sure we're on the right track.
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