Bug#323828: tetex-bin: updmap fails while installation

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Hi,

Before closing down my mail program I just notice that there is this
unsent mail.  Most of it is probably outdated after the various mails we
exchanged this afternoon, but other things might be still interesting.
And I'm simply too much in a hurry to go through it again.

Regards, Frank

Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:

> I've simply run
> #v+
> # updmap --syncwithtrees

This won't really help because as soon as a maintainer script runs
update-updmap, the fixed updmap.cfg will be overwritten.  We still need
to add some code to either change syncwithtrees to do something useful
on Debian, or to simply exit with an informational message.

>   config file: `/usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg'

This file shouldn't be there.  You are now the third person who has it,
although to our knowledge none of the older Debian packages ever placed
it there.

Please look whether this is a generated file starting with 

### This file was automatically generated by update-updmap.
#
# Please do not edit it directly.

or not, and then remove it or move it out of the way.  After that,
please run (as root, and after either logging in as root, or getting
root via "su -", not only "su")

update-updmap
updmap-sys-debug 2>&1 | tee updmap.lg

and send again the file.

> And what's funny latex strikes
> #v+
> $ latex test.latex
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> #v-

In this case, please do the following before any further debugging:

dpkg-reconfigure tex-common
dpkg-reconfigure tetex-base
dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin

If this can be done without an error, calling updmap-sys manually should
work, too, and latex as well as pdflatex should work fine.  If not, the
update-updmap and updmap-sys-debug calls are again intersting.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer