Bug#270407: tetex-base: inter-device move failed: `latex.fmt' to `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt'

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 07.09.04 Kees Leune (C.J.Leune@uvt.nl) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:12:05AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> > Kees Leune <C.J.Leune@uvt.nl> schrieb:

Hi,

> > > The error produced is:
> > >
> > > Beginning to dump on file latex.fmt
> > >  (format=latex 2004.9.7)
> > 
> > This shows that the formats were not generated properly upon
> > installation. Can you please run (as root)
> > 
> > dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin
> > 
> > and send us the output.
> 
> 
> Use update-fmtutil to automatically generate fmtutil.cnf?    
>     Yes
> 
Fine.

> # dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin
> Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/cont-en.efmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/elatex.efmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.efmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.efmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mptopdf.efmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.efmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.efmt installed.
> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mf.base installed.
> Running updmap. This may take some time. ...
> 
Fine.

> # latex book.tex 
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.efmt
> running `tex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' ...
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INITEX)
> 
Looks weird. Did you change manually /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00* and refused
to install the maintainers version on install of tetex-bin. Could you
send us /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00*? What does "ls -l /etc/texmf/fmt.d/"
say?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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