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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Dzien dobry,

thanks for reporting.  This might be the same as #315762.

Marcin Juszkiewicz <debbugs@hrw.one.pl> wrote:

> 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.

If that happens again, please send the output of "ps axf".  One thing is
different to the older bug, though:  Back then, it wasn't possible to
stop it with Ctrl-C.

Also, before you kill it again, please check whether there are any
directories in /tmp that look like created by tetex's postinst, and just
copy ("cp -a") the most recent one outside /tmp, so that it is
preserved.

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