Bug#366907: tetex-bin: Fails to configure, updmap failed

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

"Liam M. Healy" <lnp@healy.washington.dc.us> wrote:

> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   auctex libkpathsea4 libpoppler0c2 perl-tk preview-latex-style psutils 
>   tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-doc tetex-extra tetex-src tex-common 
> 0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 99 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/142MB of archives. After unpacking 335MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> /tmp/tex-common.config.100881: line 90: [: =: unary operator expected

Hm, that's strange.  The line is:

    if [ $PERMS = $FONTCACHE_PERMS ] ; then

maybe quotes around the variables would be better, but I don't understand
what's happening.

Okay, so now let's look at the main error:

> =====================================
> Contents of tetex.updmap.XXYqS5Gd is
>
> updmap-sys: This is updmap-sys, version 1107552857-debian
> updmap-sys: using transcript file `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap-sys.log'
>
> updmap is creating new map files using the following configuration:
>
>   config file: `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg'
>   dvips output directory: `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap'
>   pdftex output directory: `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap'
>   dvipdfm output directory: `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap'
>
>   prefer outlines: `true'
>   texhash enabled: `true'
>   download standard fonts (dvips): `false'

This is not the configuration as shipped in the deb, and it's not
recommended by Adobe to set this to false.  But it shouldn't matter
here; it just gives a hint that you probably have changed the conffiles
somewhere. 

>   download standard fonts (pdftex): `true'
>   download standard fonts (dvipdfm): `true'
>
> updmap-sys: Scanning for LW35 support files
>
> !!! ERROR! The map file `dvips35.map' has not been found at all.

This file should be in

/usr/share/texmf-tetex/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/dvips35.map

Does it exist?  What is (as root) the output of

kpsewhich -show-path=map

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