Bug#298481: tetex-bin: texconfig fails to print test page
Andrew T.Young <aty@mintaka.sdsu.edu> wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 1.0.7+20011202-7.3
> Severity: important
>
> The function "dvips_test_print" that begins on line 464 of the texconfig
> script fails to print the test page. In my case, the printer went into an
> infinite loop and never produced any output; debugging revealed that the
> string "A4size" had been sent to the PS printer, leading to an "undefined"
> PS error with an empty stack.
>
> The reason appears to be that the texconf script never copies the
> testpage.tex file to the temporary working directory. This file lives at
>
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/testpage.tex
>
> so I suggest inserting a line like
>
> cp /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/testpage.tex .
>
> just before line 469, which tries to latex testpage .
No, this can not be the cause. There is no need to copy the testpage,
because (La)TeX will find it anyway. You can try it out by saying
latex testpage
anywhere. The problem that your printer goes into an infinite loop must
be something else. Can you generally send documents to the printer
directly from dvips, either using
dvips somefile.dvi
or specifying the printer explicitly with
dvips -P<printername> somefile.dvi
Does that work on your system?
In any case, these bug reports are be valuable for us - at least the
other two are still present in unstable - but we will not be able to fix
them in the woody package. You know, for stable only security updates
and some really critical things are allowed. However, I can recommend
to use some of the teTeX_2.0.2 backports that are available for woody,
e.g. in Adrian Bunks collection at
deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-2 main contrib non-free
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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