Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install
clone 427562 -1
reassign 427562 tex-common
retitle -1 Possible forkbomb: mktexfmt loops because (pdf)TeX tries a base format
severity -1 important
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> How do we continue with this bug. It seems to be the last really open RC
> bug of the texlive packages (a side the etch-ignore and dummy bugs).
[...]
> My current opinion is to hack update-fontlang
That would solve the RC bug, but the inherent problem is in the
combination of the TeX binaries falling back to a base format and
mktexfmt not being able to detect this loop. Some more analysis is
required on this, and finally an upstream decision.
Therefore I'm cloning this.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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