Bug#486162: texlive-base-bin: tcfmgr.map and fmtutil.cnf missing

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Alexander Heinlein <alexander.heinlein@web.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:16:17PM +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
>> So again, what's the content of /usr/share/texmf/ls-R? What's the
>> output of
>>        ls -l /var/lib/texmf
>
> /usr/share/texmf/ls-R is attached. I noticed that there is still crap in
> this file. Removing it lead to a clean package installation.

When you said that you purged all TeX packages and reinstalled, did that
include libkpathsea?  It is the library which is responsible for reading
and interpreting the ls-R files, and if it is corrupted on hard disk
that might lead to problems in the future.

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)