Bug#325537: tetex-extra: package fails to configure: Error: `omega -ini -jobname=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' failed
Package: tetex-extra
Version: 2.0.2c-8
Severity: normal
2.0.2c-8 fails to configure:
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11/bin apt-get -f install
...
Setting up tetex-extra (2.0.2c-8) ...
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
Error: `omega -ini -jobname=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' failed
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fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
/var/lib/texmf/web2c
for details.
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It seems that "lambda.log" is the relevant logfile:
This is Omega, Version 3.14159--1.23.2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INIOMEGA)
28 AUG 2005 11:37
Copyright (c) 1994--2000 John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous
**lambda.ini
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/lambda.ini
! I can't find file `lambda.tex'.
l.3 \input lambda.tex
Please type another input file name:
! Emergency stop.
l.3 \input lambda.tex
End of file on the terminal!
No pages of output.
> It would be nice to include the output of the following commands:
>
> kpsewhich --progname=lambda lambda.tex
[fails with exit code 1]
> ls /usr/share/texmf/tex/lambda/base/
ls: /usr/share/texmf/tex/lambda/base/: No such file or directory
[there is no /usr/share/texmf/tex/lambda either]
> kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMF'
{/root/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/lib/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf}
I guess "lambda" is simply not there. Looking a bit for lamba.text, I find one here:
/usr/share/texmf/omega/lambda/base/lambda.tex (part of tetex-extra)
Not knowing much about tex, I have no idea what that means :)
However, what I did was apt-get upgrade from a working version of tetex,
which failed to configure because it started to use a program "aleph" in
my PATH that wasn't the correct one. Removing that from the PATH does not
help, though, maybe this is related, maybe not.
(I did check for other tex-related env variables, but did not find any. I tried with this:
env -i DISPLAY=localhost:0 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin apt-get -f install
but that still failed, so I guess it's not env-var-related.
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If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries
(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!
If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)
or
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 79 Aug 8 23:45 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 91 Aug 8 23:45 /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 793 Aug 8 23:45 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug 8 23:45 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.10 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii tetex-base 2.0.2c-8 Basic library files of teTeX
ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-30 The teTeX binary files
ii ucf 2.001 Update Configuration File: preserv
tetex-extra recommends no packages.
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