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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 03.11.06 Marcin Juszkiewicz (debbugs@hrw.one.pl) wrote:

Hi,

> 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.
> 
Have you already purged tetex-bin, when you wrote that bug report?
I'm wondering, how....

> Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
> pn  tetex-base                <none>         (no description available)
> 
... you managed to install tetex-bin, without having tetex-base installed.

H.
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