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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> wrote:

> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 3.0-17
> Severity: normal
>
>
> 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)

What is the output of 

dpkg -l xmltex
ls /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
grep xmltex /etc/texmf/fmt.d/*

I suspect that you refused to upgrade xmltex's configuration file (or
that there's one more bug in xmltex's configuration file handling).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)