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

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> On Die, 05 Jun 2007, John Goerzen wrote:
>> # dpkg -s texlive-latex-base | grep -i status
>> Status: install ok unpacked
>> 
>> It is not configured because of this problem.
>> 
>> There is no /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-latex-base.cnf on this system:
>> 
>> # ls /etc/texmf/fmt.d
>> 00tex.cnf                    10texlive-latex-base.cnf.dpkg-new
>> 01tetex.cnf.obsolete         40jadetex.cnf
>> 10texlive-base-bin.cnf       40jadetex.cnf.dpkg-old
>> 10texlive-base.cnf.dpkg-new  50cyrtexinfo.cnf
>
> But why is texlive-latex-base not configured AND jadetex.postinst is
> run??? THis is out of my understanding?

It happens when texlive-latex-bin's postinst is run, which runs
fmtutil-sys --all.

> Frank, do you understand this?

I don't understand why it didn't happen before.  It seems that this
happens when jadetex is installed together with teTeX, and then during
the upgrade to sid teTeX's info about latex is removed before texlive's
is added.

And it can happen in any situation again, we have actually two bugs
here:

- We should to prevent jadetex from trying to be created when no latex
  information is present

- we need to do something about the fork bomb.

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