Bug#334613: tetex-bin: fmtutil-sys fails during package package setup

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Samuel, hi Jean, hi Ohura,

this seems to be a jadetex problem, but things are unclear.

Samuel Mimram <smimram@debian.org> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-9
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Hi,
>
> While updating tetex from last unstable version, I got the following
> error:
>
> Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-9) ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/xdvi.cfg ...
> Replacing config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf with new version
> Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
> Error: `etex -ini  -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed
> Error: `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjade
> tex.ini' failed
>
[...]
> I've attached the corresponding output file

Thank you, this helps.  However, before that I'd like to ask something
else: 

> Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
[...]
> pn  libkpathsea4              <none>         (no description available)
[...]
> pn  tetex-base                <none>         (no description available)

If this were true, it would be a wonder that not all formats fail to
build, and there would be a big dpkg bug, because tetex-bin depends on
both packages.  Was this really the state immediately after the upgrade
failed?   

Now to the output file:

,----
| fmtutil-sys: running `etex -ini   -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' ...
| This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
| (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
| 
| 
| fmtutil-sys: running `pdfetex -ini   -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' ...
| This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
| (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
`----

So the problem seems to be jadetex, but I could install jadetex from
unstable just fine.  Assuming that libkpathsea4 is in fact installed,
can you send us the output of the following commands:

kpsewhich -progname=pdfetex pdfetex.pool
kpsewhich jadetex.in

Regards, Frank


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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer