Bug#288182: tetex-bin postinst fails when calling fmtutil

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 02.01.05 Attila Kinali (attila@kinali.ch) wrote:

Hi,

> When updating tetex-bin to 2.0.2-25, the postinst script failes
> when calling fmutil:
> 
> ---
> Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-25) ...
> Merging information from /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ into /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
> ... done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> shift: 730: can't shift that many
> dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
> ---
> 
> A run with set -x reveales:
> ---
> [...]
> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> + /usr/bin/fmtutil --all
> shift: 730: can't shift that many
> [...]
> ---
> 
> If you need more information, please let me know.
> 
At first: I guess manual calling "fmtutil --all" as root don't work
either.
Second: Replace the first line by "#!/bin/sh -x", call fmtutil again
and post the output (will be sent to stderr).

Regards,
  Hilmar
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