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

[Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au]

Greetings,

> 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

% su
# kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

# wc /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
 106  551 3673 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

# grep -v \# /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
tex             tex             -               tex.ini
pdftex          pdfetex         -       -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini
mf              mf              -               -translate-file=cp227.tcx mf.ini

etex            pdfetex         language.def    -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini
pdfetex         pdfetex         language.def    -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini


hmm. uh-oh. I just thought of something.
# env | grep TEX
TEXINPUTS=.:/home/me/tex/styles:/home/me/tex/bibtex/styles:/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex//

# ls -d /usr/share/texmf*
/usr/share/texmf  /usr/share/texmf-texlive

could this be the source of the problem?

Cheers
Vince