Bug#419565: context: configuration fails

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Tamas K Papp <tpapp@Princeton.EDU> wrote:

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

Ah, fine - I misunderstood you.

>> 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?  

It could.  It's not easy to debug, though.  Please try the following
steps.

1. First, check whether it also fails if you call texexec directly:

texexec --verbose --nonstopmode --fast --make --pdftex metafun

   If this should succeed for some obscure reason, report it.  Otherwise
   proceed to step 2

2. make libkpathsea produce debugging output, and run again:

export KPATHSEA_DEBUG=126
texexec --verbose --nonstopmode --fast --make --pdftex metafun 2>&1 | tee debug.log

and send us the file debug.log

Regards, Frank

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