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Package: texlive-pdfetex
Version: 2005.dfsg.2-12
Severity: normal
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Hi,
this is probably a duplicate but I have no idea how to divine the
root cause. Bugs that look similar are #419893 and #421969.
I was doing a regular apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and got stuck
over the package 'tipa'. I've tried removing it and get clobbered
by texlive-pdfetex trying to configure itself, so I'm filing here.
Feel free to reassign/merge etc. My goal in filing is to request a
little assistance untangling the mess and to let you know of possible
problems in other formerly-depending-on-tetex packages.
The failure takes this form:
# apt-get --purge remove tipa
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
docbook-utils* jadetex* tipa*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 7033kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 139907 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing docbook-utils ...
Removing jadetex ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Purging configuration files for jadetex ...
Replacing config file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version
Removing tipa ...
Running 'mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf /var/lib/texmf'.
This may take some time... done.
Running 'updmap-sys'.
This may take some time... done.
Purging configuration files for tipa ...
Setting up texlive-pdfetex (2005.dfsg.2-12) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --byfmt etex. This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Iwa27687
Please include this file if you report a bug.
... apt-get log truncated ...
# cat /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Iwa27687
fmtutil: format `etex' not available.
packages.d.o says the 'etex' binary comes from
usr/bin/etex tex/tetex-bin, tex/texlive-base-bin
/usr/bin/etex does exist however;
it's a symlink to /usr/bin/pdfetex which also exists.
The system has been in this state since 2007-05-10.
I tried using aptitude to resolve the dependencies, but no luck.
I waited a week or so trying to upgrade every other day or so,
in hopes things would sort themselves out but it appears this
isn't affecting many other people.
For what it's worth the other packages that currently report
dependency problems relating to this are:
texlive-pdfetex
texlive-latex-base
latex-beamer
texlive-latex-recommended
prosper
Presumably none of this is news to you.
To close, I append the output of 'dpkg -l |grep tex' to give you an
idea of the other packages installed
ii console-common 0.7.69 Basic infrastructure for text console configuration
ii gettext-base 0.16.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities for the base system
ii groff 1.18.1.1-12 GNU troff text-formatting system
ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-12 GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components)
iU latex-beamer 3.07-1 LaTeX class to produce presentations
ii latex-xcolor 2.09-1 Easy driver-independent TeX class for color
ii latex-xft-fonts 0.1-6 Xft-compatible versions of some LaTeX fonts
ii latex2html 2002-2-1-20050114-5 LaTeX to HTML translator
ii libalgorithm-diff-perl 1.19.01-2 a perl library for finding Longest Common Sequences in text
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.56-1 A collection of modules that parse HTML text documents
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 Using libc functions for internationalization in Perl
ii liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl 0.62-2 Lexicon-handling backends for "Locale::Maketext"
ii liblocale-maketext-simple-perl 0.16-1 Simple interface to Locale::Maketext::Lexicon
ii libnewt0.52 0.52.2-10 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing with slang
ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internationalized text
ii libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-4 get display widths of characters on the terminal
ii libtext-diff-perl 0.35-2 Perform diffs on files and record sets in perl
ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.4-3 converts between character sets in Perl
ii libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-5 internationalized substitute of Text::Wrap
ii linuxdoc-tools-latex 0.9.21-0.5 LaTeX/PS/PDF output facility of LinuxDoc-Tools
ii linuxdoc-tools-text 0.9.21-0.5 Text output facility of LinuxDoc-Tools
ii mawk 1.3.3-11 a pattern scanning and text processing language
ii mousepad 0.2.10-1 simple Xfce oriented text editor
ii r-base-latex 2.4.1-2 GNU R LaTeX docs for statistical computing system functions
rc tetex-base 3.0.dfsg.3-5 Basic TeX input files of teTeX
rc tetex-bin 3.0-30 The teTeX programs
rc tetex-extra 3.0.dfsg.3-5 Additional TeX input files of teTeX
ii tex-common 1.7 Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian
ii texinfo 4.8.dfsg.1-4 Documentation system for on-line information and printed output
ii texlive-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Essential programs and files
ii texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: Essential binaries
ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component
ii texlive-doc-base 2005.dfsg.2-1 TeX Live: Base documentation
ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ii texlive-generic-recommended 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Miscellaneous generic macros
iU texlive-latex-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages
iU texlive-latex-recommended 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
iF texlive-pdfetex 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: pdfTeX
ii texlive-pstricks 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: PSTricks packages
ii tofrodos 1.7.6-2 Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos
Kind regards,
Vince
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If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries
(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!
If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)
or
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 759 2007-05-19 16:01 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-04-27 18:12 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-05-09 20:05 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-05-09 20:05 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-04-27 18:12 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3673 2007-05-19 16:00 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7032 2007-05-19 16:00 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
total 172
drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2006-10-25 19:36 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2004-04-17 13:25 bookmarks
drwxr-sr-x 6 vjm vjm 4096 2006-10-25 16:35 calendar
drwxr-xr-x 8 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 20:56 computing
drwxr-xr-x 3 vjm vjm 4096 2007-04-29 21:37 cooking
drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-03-31 12:24 cups
drwxr-xr-x 4 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 20:57 debian
drwx------ 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 21:02 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-16 20:26 dns
drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-03-31 12:23 figures
drwxr-xr-x 11 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-19 15:36 finance
-rw-r--r-- 1 vjm vjm 5084 2006-09-19 19:15 getadsmtp.pl
drwxr-xr-x 5 vjm vjm 4096 2007-04-29 21:14 house
drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-04-25 12:39 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 vjm vjm 3067 2007-05-14 06:49 log.20070514
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13257 2007-05-10 07:19 log.aptitude
-rw-r--r-- 1 vjm vjm 18501 2007-05-10 07:18 log.tipa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-05-19 15:58 log.tipa.remove
drwxr-xr-x 3 vjm vjm 4096 2006-10-16 07:24 personal
drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 20:58 planning
drwxr-sr-x 6 vjm vjm 4096 2007-04-03 00:02 quotas
drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 21:02 reading
drwxr-x--- 3 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-13 19:34 scans
drwxr-s--x 9 vjm vjm 4096 2006-10-10 22:17 tex
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.caI17868
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.cFL17550
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-19 09:41 texlive.fmtutil.CiU25776
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.cXJ16240
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-14 06:48 texlive.fmtutil.fuw20220
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.JpZ13942
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.Myo18203
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.QaX18844
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.wCS19162
-rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.Xbt18521
drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-03-11 10:18 Videos
drwxr-xr-x 5 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-07 21:18 wedding
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive-pdfetex depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii texlive-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Essential programs and f
ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component
texlive-pdfetex recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 3.001 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages texlive-pdfetex 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:
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Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mai 2007, Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Yes.
In other words, there is no bug in the packages. I'm not sure whether
using TEXINPUTS is documented anywhere except the kpathsea manual, but
this for sure has the correct instructions.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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