Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install
On Die, 05 Jun 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
> But why is texlive-latex-base not configured AND jadetex.postinst is
> run??? THis is out of my understanding?
Slowly unfolds the mystery.
I assume the following:
- we are upgrading from texlive 2005, it can only happen at this time
- furthermore, jadetex is installed and configured, no problem, even
with jadetex -8 in testing
- no we do the upgrade, up to now
texlive-base-bin
texlive-base
texlive-latex-base
is installed in version 2005 something
- texlive-base-bin.preinst is run, it removes *ALL* files from
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.{fmt,mem,...}, also latex.fmt
- all the files are unpacked
- texlive-base-bin.postinst is run:
update-fmtutil includes jadetex, but not the latex since
it is not configured
fmtutil-sys --all is called which tries to build jadetex format
and dies ...
how to reproduce (I just tried it, it works!)
- testing chroot
- purge everything
- apt-get install jadetex
- switch to sid
- apt-get dist-upgrade
PENG!!!
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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