Bug#388115: tetex-base: postinst fails, can not upgrade

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:00 +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>
> Relevant log message seems to be:
> 
> (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
> ! LaTeX must be made using an initex with no format preloaded.
> l.78 ... using an initex with no format preloaded}

This happens after fmtutil calls

etex -ini   -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini

This *looks* as if 'jadetex.ini' has been updated to the new form, while
the fmtutil.cnf snippets have not. Either because these are conffiles
and the local admins did not accept the change (not a bug), or because
the most recent jadetex upload missed that change (jadetex bug). 

However, Frans and Sean, please answer these questions:
 
> The other errors just seems to be subsequent.
> 1. Which version of jadetex package do you use?
> 2. What gives you "ls -l /etc/texmf/fmt.d"?
> 3. Please send us files containing "jade" in its names.

Then I can stop guessing ...

BTW, did anybody see the original bug report via the mailing list?

cheerio
ralf