Bug#421242: system run out of memory while building formats

[Rafal Czlonka <rafal.czlonka@googlemail.com>]

Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007-5
Severity: critical

Hi,
When the postinst script runs and it comes to 'Building formats', after
several minutes of doing so, the system runs out of memory. The process
"eats" all the available memory, both phisical (512MB RAM) and virtual
(1GB swap). After that the system simply freezes and is unrecoverable.

Regards,
rjc

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
ii  ed                        0.2-20         The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                     2.5-4          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.5-5          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler0c2             0.5.0-1        PDF rendering library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   1:1.0.3-3      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxmu6                   1:1.0.3-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                   1:3.5.6-2      X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-2      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  mime-support              3.39-1         MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                      5.8.8-7        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  texlive-common            2007-4         TeX Live: Base component
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends:
ii  perl-tk                      1:804.027-7 Perl module providing the Tk graph

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  cdebconf                      0.115      Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii  debconf                       1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           2.0021     Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-bin                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-extra                   <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
  tex-common/singleuser: true