Bug#560885: texlive-base: Fails to upgrade

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

Package: texlive-base
Version: 2009-4
Severity: serious

Doing an upgrade today resulted in:
Setting up texlive-base (2009-4) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all --cnffile
/etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base.cnf.
        This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.LHrpVsJ9
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1


That log file ended with:
14787 words of font info for 50 preloaded fonts
14 hyphenation exceptions
Hyphenation trie of length 6075 has 181 ops out of 35111
  181 for language 0
No pages of output.
Transcript written on tex.log.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex/tex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: Infinite recursion detected, giving up!.


Kurt