On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 06:21:18PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Then I tried the first of the failed commands directly from the command line.
> > Here's the result:
> >
> > porridge@menel:/var/lib/texmf/web2c$ sudo pdftex -ini -translate-file=il2-pl -jobname=pdfmex-pl -progname=pdfmex-pl pdfmex.ini This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5) (INITEX)
> [...]
> > Transcript written on pdfmex-pl.log.
> > porridge@menel:/var/lib/texmf/web2c$
> [...]
> > In other words, looks fine, which is pretty puzzling.
> > I tried dpkg --configure -a again, and this resulted in the same typescript as
> > initially reported. Indeed, the pdfmex-pl.{log,fmt} were not modified during
> > the dpkg run, but were during the direct invocation.
>
> This is in fact strange. Did you also use "sudo" for the apt-get
> invocation, or did you use an other method to gain root rights?
Yes, I remember making sure to use the same method.
> > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf follows:
>
> Just to be sure, the output of
>
> kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf
>
> called as root (the same way as apt-get was called) is in fact
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf?
Yes, it's this whether I use sudo, su, su - or as non-root.
> So what can we do to further debug this? You could do the following:
> Save the attached file as /usr/local/sbin/fmtutil and then run the
> necessary commands to trigger the bug - "dpkg --configure -a" in the
> simplest case, or "apt-get install tetex-bin", or whatever, but redirect
> the stdout and stderr to a file (or copy it there), like this:
>
> dpkg --configure -a 2>&1 | tee debug.log
>
> There should be plenty of output, which is also in debug.log - please
> send us this file.
This didn't work, for two reasons:
- you hardcode the path to fmtutil in the postinst
- you explicitly set PATH in the postinst not to include
/usr/local/*bin
However, since it's sufficient to run dpkg --postinst, I just edited my
/usr/bin/fmtutil to include the -x in she-bang line, and got the
attached output (typescript-with-custom-fmtutil-try-2). (Ran twice,
the second time with LANG=C LC_ALL=C, because I wanted to test whether
the locale affects the error).
Awaiting further instructions.
regards,
Marcin
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