Bug#427562: texlive-base-bin: Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install
Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007-11
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
I recently tried upgrading (I track sid).
Upon upgrading texlive-base-bin, the system ate all swap and eventually
crashed.
I subsequently attempted to remove texlive packages with dpkg
--force-depends --purge, and reinstall with apt-get -f install.
However, the same behavior reoccured.
It happens at this point:
Setting up texlive-base-bin (2007-11) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all . This may take some time...
Looking at ps, there are tons of processes like this:
629 pts/4 S+ 0:00 pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex
659 pts/4 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mktexfmt jadetex.fmt
684 pts/4 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mktexfmt jadetex.fmt
685 pts/4 S+ 0:00 pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex
716 pts/4 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mktexfmt jadetex.fmt
742 pts/4 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mktexfmt jadetex.fmt
743 pts/4 S+ 0:00 pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex
773 pts/4 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mktexfmt jadetex.fmt
801 pts/4 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mktexfmt jadetex.fmt
802 pts/4 S+ 0:00 pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex
833 pts/4 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mktexfmt jadetex.fmt
862 pts/4 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mktexfmt jadetex.fmt
863 pts/4 S+ 0:00 pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex
-- Package-specific info:
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)
##################################
minimal input file
##################################
other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 747 Jun 4 16:27 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 May 17 13:58 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 4 16:10 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 4 16:10 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 17 13:58 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3091 Jun 4 16:27 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4017 Jun 4 16:27 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2085 Jun 4 16:27 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Aug 24 2006 mktex.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
25bf3a257a0bedb5c67349c3eaff74af /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
5f7f6652cc8b8071c9e4ea6ba9e9f0a1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
e95ae4d6b002ade290425bd74a175a83 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
15cd7cfba075d781fa71dfd994ca72ce /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
9da7c1c7b1eaf06f941af91f48a23068 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
7952e5392660042fb4b84e67a3b85463 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
7e8f87acdeba48edac16d851c77b9e75 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
e3b19f249b562f21556a3ea2abc17678 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
0b5483ae6af6c33480de5d1f628ffe83 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/96JadeTeX.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.5-9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libkpathsea4 2007-11 TeX Live: path search library for
ii libncurses5 5.6-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler1 0.5.4-6 PDF rendering library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.3-3 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.6-3 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii mime-support 3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii texlive-common 2007-9 TeX Live: Base component
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-15 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends:
ii perl-tk 1:804.027-7 Perl module providing the Tk graph
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-base-bin is related to:
pn tetex-base <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available)
ii tex-common 1.7 Common infrastructure for using an
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
tex-common/singleuser: false
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