Bug#396835: tetex-bin postinst take unlimited amount of time and ram (kpsewhich took 600M and 14h)

[Marcin Juszkiewicz <debbugs@hrw.one.pl>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-23
Severity: important

I want to install tetex to generate some documentation. But on this
system it is stuck in postinst - looking at top it looks like kpsewhich
is a problem - it took over 600M of RAM (1.2G installed) and when I left
it for whole night it did not finished - I Ctrl-C it and will try to
remove tetex* from system.

I have no idea what can be wrong here - it works on my other machine.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc1
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.8          Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils               2.17.3         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dialog                    1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  dpkg                      1.13.24        package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                        0.2-20         The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.1-2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-5        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.1.1-19     GCC support library
ii  libice6                   1:1.0.1-2      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-13          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  libkpathsea4              3.0-23         path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1                 1.1.20         Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.8rel-7     PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler0c2             0.4.5-5        PDF rendering library
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.1-3      X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6                4.1.1-19       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5                   5.1.0-2        Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-2      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   1:1.0.2-4      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.1-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxmu6                   1:1.0.2-2      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                   1:3.5.5-2      X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.2-2      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  mime-support              3.37-1         MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                      5.8.8-6.1      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii  sed                       4.1.5-1        The GNU sed stream editor
pn  tetex-base                <none>         (no description available)
ii  tex-common                0.37           Common infrastructure for using an
ii  ucf                       2.0016         Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages tetex-bin recommends:
pn  libxml-parser-perl            <none>     (no description available)
pn  perl-tk                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  psutils                       1.17-23    A collection of PostScript documen

Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii  tex-common                    0.37       Common infrastructure for using an
ii  ucf                           2.0016     Update Configuration File: preserv

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