Bug#419565: context: configuration fails

[Tamas K Papp <tpapp@Princeton.EDU>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 07:10:33PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Tamas K Papp <tpapp@Princeton.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > Package: context
> > Version: 2007.01.23-3
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> > Configuration fails, the log is below.  I read similar bug reports, so
> > I also tried installing after removing every package that uses
> > /var/lib/texmf and deleting this directory.
> 
> Did you delete the directory while even tex-common was removed?  You
> really shouldn't have done that, only files with extensions "fmt log mem
> base" in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ (mind the last component!) should be
> removed. 

I removed all packaged that included this directory and it
disappeared, I didn't have to remove it manually.

> > The logfile:
> >
> > TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich'
> > TeXExec | using existing database
> > TeXExec | using mp engine mpost
> > TeXExec | using mps format path /var/lib/texmf/web2c
> > TeXExec | generating mps format metafun
> > This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INIMP)
> > (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
> > ! I can't find file `metafun'.
> > <*> metafun
> 
> I can reproduce this when I move away
> /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp 
> 
> Does this file exist on your system?  If not, does

The file exists:

pu100877:~# ll /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2089 2006-06-13 16:51 /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp

> apt-get --reinstall install context

no, it doesn't same error message.  Could this be a path problem
somewhere?  I unset my $TEXINPUTS but it still persists.

Thanks,

Tamas