Re: [Bug 122863] Re: package texlive-base-bin 2007-11 failed to install/upgrade: post-installation script spawns thousands of processes

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> I don't really have an explanation.  

One morething which is strange is that the original reporter said that
there were *two* fork bombs after each other, and that the first was
"related" to mktexlsr, but still there were *etex* processes running.

This I cannot explain anyhow, I assume that the bug reporter mixed
something up, please ask him to clarify that (I'm in a hurry, leaving
for holiday, and have no time to look up the launchpad bug and
reporter's e-mail address, sorry).

> I'm not sure what texlive and tex-common versions feisty had, but
> if I assume it resembles sarge (tex-common 1.0*), *then* I do not have
> an explanation. 

We should really try to get exact version numbers (aptitude log?)

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