Bug#298481: marked as done (tetex-bin: texconfig fails to print test page)
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From: Andrew T.Young <aty@mintaka.sdsu.edu>
Subject: tetex-bin: texconfig fails to print test page
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-7.3
Severity: important
The function "dvips_test_print" that begins on line 464 of the texconfig
script fails to print the test page. In my case, the printer went into an
infinite loop and never produced any output; debugging revealed that the
string "A4size" had been sent to the PS printer, leading to an "undefined"
PS error with an empty stack.
The reason appears to be that the texconf script never copies the
testpage.tex file to the temporary working directory. This file lives at
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/testpage.tex
so I suggest inserting a line like
cp /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/testpage.tex .
just before line 469, which tries to latex testpage .
-- A. T. Young
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux aty786 2.4.18-1-k7 #1 Wed Apr 14 19:20:42 UTC 2004 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debianutils 1.16.2woody1 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii ed 0.2-19 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libkpathsea3 1.0.7+20011202 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii libpng2 1.0.12-3.woody PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11woody The GNU stdc++ library
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6.woody5 Tag Image File Format library
ii libxaw7 4.1.0-16woody5 X Athena widget set library
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20011202 basic teTeX library files
ii xlibs 4.1.0-16woody5 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1.1.4-1.0woody compression library - runtime
--- Begin /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf (modified conffile)
: ${MT_FEATURES=appendonlydir:varfonts}
: ${MODE=cx}
: ${BDPI=300}
: ${DPI=300}
--- End /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf
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Andrew Young <aty@sciences.sdsu.edu> wrote:
> And the reason was that the box had been
> converted from Red Hat to Debian, using the debtakeover script.
>=20
> It seems that RH had an actual directory at
>=20
> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config
>=20
> but Debian has a symbolic link there to /etc/texmf/dvips. The fossil
> RH directory had a couple of files in it, but not what the texconfig
> script needed when configuring dvips.
closing=20
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer
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