Bug#427562: texlive-base-bin: Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi John, hi all!

On Die, 05 Jun 2007, John Goerzen wrote:
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
> Sorry, I can't find the format `latex.fmt'; will try `jadetex.fmt'.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt jadetex.fmt

This is really strange.

I checked it. I removed my latex format, I called

	pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex '&latex' jadetex.ini

and the mktexfmt latex.fmt call succeeds. I have no idea why it does not
succeed in your case.

Can you do another test: Please edit /usr/bin/fmtutil and at the top add
	set -x
then redo the test and break off as usual. I want to see why
fmtutil/mktexfmt cannot find the latex.fmt.

You do have texlive-latex-base installed, you do have
/etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-latex-base.cnf and it contains a latex line?

What does kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf say? And does
this file contain the same latex line as
/etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-latex-base.cnf?

Thanks a lot for your valuable help ...

Best wishes

Norbert

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