Bug#399842: libkpathsea4: segmentation fault on upgrade of tetex

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

severity 399842 important
retitle 399842 Error when creating cont-en.fmt
tags 399842 unreproducible
thanks

Émile CARRY <emile.carry@univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:

> Le Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:23:49 -0800,
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> a écrit :
>
>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:26:39PM +0100, Émile CARRY wrote:
>> > This segfault break upgrade for tetex-extra.
>> > When I remove (and purge) package libkpathsea4 the problem
>> > disappear but all tetex package depend of package libkpathsea4.
>> 
>> Then how can you claim that the problem is in libkpathsea4?  Of
>> course you don't get a segfault from tetex when you force it to be
>> uninstalled!
>
> Ok, I was too quick to input the problem to libkpathsea4
>
> after using gdb and reinstall package libpoppler0c2, the problem
> changed. It's now a problem with pdfetex...

In other words, you probably had an incompatible version of libpoppler
installed (there used to be one in experimental that segfaulted with
pdfTeX, but it's long gone).

> Now, it's perhaps a syntax error in 
> /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/context/base/context.tex
> line 1116

Except that this format is created on every single of the 6000
installations reported by popcon.  Please reinstall tetex-base and try
again.  If one of the tetex packages still fails to configure, please
send us /var/lib/texmf/web2c/cont-en.log.

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