Bug#419893: texlive-base-bin: Fails to install due to fmutil-sys failed

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi B.

On Mit, 18 Apr 2007, B.West wrote:
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> fmtutil: running `tex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' ...

Please, can you tell me what you have installed, ie which version of
packages?

THis is NOT what should happen!!! The respective engine should be
pdftex. It seems that your system is deeply hosed.

Please send me the status (installed or not, version) of
- tex-common
- texlive-common

and tell me:
- do you have ~/.texmf-var or ~/.texmf-config with files in it?
- which files with md5sums do you have in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/

Thanks a lot.

Wrong fmtutil calls:

> fmtutil: running `tex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' ...
> fmtutil: running `etex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex *latex.ini' ...
> fmtutil: running `etex -ini   -jobname=etex -progname=etex *etex.ini' ...


> fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini' ...
> fmtutil: running `pdfetex -ini   -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex *pdflatex.ini' ...

Aehmmm... why these two??? we only want pdflatex once, same with normal
latex.

etc etc etc...

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>                    Università di Siena
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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