Bug#520042: texlive-base: Fails to generate formats on new installation(?)

["Daniel Schepler" <dschepler@scalable-networks.com>]

After installing the build dependencies for gnuplot in a pbuilder
chroot, /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex has no file etex.log OR etex.fmt.
The only files in that directory are latex.log, latex.fmt, pdflatex.log,
pdflatex.fmt.  And there is no directory /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex at
all.  Even when I run "mktexfmt --byfmt etex", neither etex.log nor
etex.fmt is created anywhere within the chroot.

And I notice that by the timestamps in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex in
the root filesystem outside the chroot, {etex,pdfetex,pdftex}.{fmt,log}
are about 5 days older than {latex,pdflatex}.{fmt,log}.
-- 
Daniel Schepler