Bug#393908: tetex-bin doesn't install with mpost error

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Johannes Graumann <johannes_graumann@web.de> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-21
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
> I'm not sure this is specific to the ConTeXt related modifications I
> originally made on my system, but a complete purge and reinstall of
> all tetex related packages gives me the same error ...fmtutil: running
> `mf -ini -jobname=mf -progname=mf -translate-file=cp227.tcx mf.ini'
> ...

I would be surprised if it had nothing to do with older modifications.

> fmtutil: running `mpost -ini   -jobname=mpost -progname=mpost -translate-file=cp227.tcx mpost.mp' ...
> ! mp.pool doesn't match; tangle me again (or fix the path).

What is the output of

kpsewhich --format=mppool mp.pool
kpsewhich --show-path=mppool

And if you have locate installed, what's the output of "locate mp.pool"?

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