Bug#425813: texlive-base: upgrade fails with 'fmtutil-sys failed'

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

forcemerge 425781 425813
thanks

Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Setting up texlive-base (2007-7) ...
> Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
> Building format(s) --all . This may take some time...
> fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
> /tmp/fmtutil.WyS25504
> Please include this file if you report a bug.

Next time, please read what you paste, and follow the instructions,
thank you.  However, this time we do not need this information, since
the interesting part is this:

>
> ######################################
>  Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
> total 0
> ######################################

I think you all got bitten by #420390, "Purging tetex transition
packages removes texlive configuration files".

This bug is solved now, but for those who already did purge, the only
solution is to reinstall the texlive packages (in particular
texlive-base and texlive-base-bin, but that might not be sufficient)
with the dpkg option --force-confmiss.

Regards, Frank


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