Bug#352569: fmtutil: Error. Apparent jadetex involvement. packages left unconfigured.

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 09:40:52PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
>> > `etex -ini  -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed
>> > `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' failed
>> >
>> > fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
>> > /tmp/tetex.postinst.XX1fljEc
>> [...]
>> > fmtutil: running `etex -ini   -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' ...
>> > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
>> > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

It's the same problem already discussed earlier:  fmtutil generates the
formats in a temporary directory, but the ones in /var/lib/texmf are
still in the path, and before the newly generated ones.

I don't even remember in which bug we discussed it (probably it was in
connection with jadetex), but does anybody remember any serious
arguments against the quick-and-dirty solution of removing the old
formats in /var/lib/texmf/web2c?

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