Bug#263715: fmtutil.cnf still not found in tetex-bin 2.0.2-18

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Mauricio Fuentes Montero <mfuentes@alumnos.utalca.cl> schrieb:

> Mensaje citado por Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>:
>> 
>> Next step in debugging is
>> 
>> bash -x /usr/sbin/update-texmf > update-texmf.log 2>&1 
>> 
>> Then please send us the file update-texmf.log
>
> attached update-texmf.log

Thanks for the log. It seems there is a problem with the way we let
update-texmf change the file. We use ucf for it, and this utility does
not do what we want it to do.

So for further debugging, you have to do some more work. The first ist
just some informational stuff:

grep texmf.cnf /var/lib/ucf/hashfile
md5sum /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf

The next is a little more complicated. Please create a copy of
/usr/sbin/update-texmf, make it executable and open it in an editor. The
fifth non-blank line counting back from the end of the file is:

rm -r ${TMPDIR}

Please change this to 

echo rm -r ${TMPDIR}

Then execute the file (as root), e.g. 

./update-texmf

It will put out something like 

rm -r /tmp/tmp.DNC6zo

Please change to this directory. It will contain a file with a name
starting with texmf (and ending with some random characters), say
texmfXX43a, and a directory with md5sum.d appended,
e.g. texmfXX43a.md5sum.d/. Please (as root) issue the command

ucf --verbose -d --three-way texmfXX43a /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf

exchanging the texmf-filename with what you found, and send us the
output.

Thanks in advance, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie