Bug#334660: tetex-bin: doesn't install, "can't read texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf: No such file or directory"
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:17:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > I reported the bug from a different system than the one the bug
> > happened on. The originating system cannot send e-mail. So, please do
> > not rely on the package versions listed. Sorry for botching this.
>
> But it would still be interesting to see the listing from the buggy
> system. You can use reportbug with some option to write to a file.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-rc4-scyw00225
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.15 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-2 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea4 3.0-9 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.1.0-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw8 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X pixmap library
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.35-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.7-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.4-4 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 3.0-9 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 2.002 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-6 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-bin recommends:
ii libxml-parser-perl 2.34-4 Perl module for parsing XML files
pn perl-tk <none> (no description available)
ii psutils 1.17-19 A collection of PostScript documen
ii whiptail 0.51.6-31 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/upd_map: true
tetex-bin/cnf_name:
* tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
* tetex-bin/hyphen: bahasa, basque, catalan, croatian, czech,
german[=austrian-alte_Rechtschreibung],
ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung], danish, dutch, finnish,
french[=patois], greek, icelandic, italian, latin, magyar, norsk[old],
norsk[nohyphb.tex], norsk[nohyphbc.tex], portuges, romanian, russian,
slovak, slovene, spanish, turkish, ukrainian[ukrhyph.tex]
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
> >> And do you think you can reproduce this bug (e.g. by going back to the
> >> old state of the conffiles) and have the tetex-bin postinst script run
> >> with set -x in the function sanitize_texmfcnf?
> >
> > I cannot even reproduce the bug in a test chroot :-(
>
> If it would be easy to reproduce the bug in a chroot, it wouldn't have
> made its way into unstable. I tested many upgrades from sid to
> experimental. So if it is reproducible, it's probably on the system
> where it occurred first.
To do so is a major effort. I will see what I can do tonight.
Greetings
Marc
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