Bug#425106: texlive-pdfetex: upgrade fails, can't find /usr/bin/etex?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

texlive-pdfetex: format information for etex not available, 

Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au wrote:

>> > # cat /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Iwa27687
>> >   fmtutil: format `etex' not available.
[...]
>> Then check
>> 	/var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>> for ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdftex.cnf
>> it should be included.
>
> It seems to be included, if you meant "10texlive-pdfetex.cnf"
>
> % grep From /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf
> ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base-bin.cnf
> ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdfetex.cnf
> ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/50cyrtexinfo.cnf

Hm, is the right fmtutil.cnf used?  

kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf

run as root (or however you do the upgrade) should output
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf 

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