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

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

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

> Dnia wtorek, 14 listopada 2006 19:24, Frank Küster napisał:
>
>> Hello Marcin,
>>
>> do you just rarely use this machine, or have you forgotten about the
>> problem?  I hope you don't mind that I "ping" you.
>
> I was overloaded recently. Today I looked more into problem and found why 
> it was a problem.
>
> On this machine kpsewhich was stat-ing all files in filesystem

Oh, this should not happen.  Maybe some conffile setting is wrong?  Can
you please send the output of

grep '^TEXMF =' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
grep '^TEXMF =' /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
kpsewhich -debug=127 --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf > kpsewhich.log 2>&1

(the last command, of course, won't create any output, but instead a
file kpsewhich.log

> I switched into 'single', umounted all filesystems and tetex was installed 
> very fast without any problems.

But it will probably be slow in processing (La)TeX files once you mount
them again.  So we better fix the configuration problem - and it
wouldn't be the first time that it turns out that there's a bug in the
upgrade logic which caused such a misconfiguration.

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