Bug#362075: tetex-base: package fails to configure: Error: `tex -ini -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex...

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 12.04.06 Marvin Renich (mrvn@renich.org) wrote:

Hi,

> tetex-base fails during dpkg --configure with the following
> message:
> 
> ----------
> Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
> Error: `tex -ini  -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex &latex
> xmltex.ini' failed
> 
> ###############################################################################
> fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
> Visit the log files in directory
>   /var/lib/texmf/web2c
> for details.
> ###############################################################################
> 
> This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
> `tex -ini  -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex &latex xmltex.ini' failed
> 
fmtutil: running `tex -ini   -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex &latex xmltex.ini' ...
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
---! /tmp/fmtutil.21093/latex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

That sounds like one of the bugs in xmltex. However it should be
fixed now at least in 1.9-11.1. Which version of xmltex is on your
disk? Does purging and reinstalling of xmltex solve the problem?

H.
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