Re: [Bug 122863] Re: package texlive-base-bin 2007-11 failed to install/upgrade: post-installation script spawns thousands of processes
- To: Bug 122863 <122863@bugs.launchpad.net>
- Cc: debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: [Bug 122863] Re: package texlive-base-bin 2007-11 failed to install/upgrade: post-installation script spawns thousands of processes
- From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:34:11 +0200
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Hi all,
(see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122863)
this is going to the debian-tex-maint list, too, since we could be hit
by this, too. Frank, please take a look.
The OP upgraded from feisty to gutsy on 2007-06-28.
feisty containes:
xmltex 1.9-11.1ubuntu1
jadetex 3.13-7.1ubuntu2
tex-common 0.42
gutsy at this time contained:
xmltex 1.9-12
jadetex 3.13-8ubuntu1
tex-common 1.9
At the upgrade time ...
> When the post-inst script of texlive-base-bin runs, it spawns around 900
> "etex" processes in the first step ("Running mktexlsr...").
> When running the second step ("Building format(s)...") it gets up to
> around 2500 "etex" processes, until the system reached a load average of
> 731 and i killed the post-inst script.
As usual, removing xmltex and jadetex fixed the problem:
On Sam, 30 Jun 2007, Mads Chr. Olesen wrote:
> removing xmltex and jadetex seems to solve the problem :-)
> Thanks! - I guess this bug can be closed
What wonders me is that this did happen at all.
As far as I see, since the tex-common 1.8 was introduced definitely
*before* the tried upgrade, it should have been selected for the
upgrade and the whole stuff shouldn't have happened.
Frank, do you have any explanation for this? And whether this could
happen to etch->lenny upgrade, too?
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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