Bug#579000: texlive-base: fails to configure: fmtutil-sys failed: cannot find pdftexconfig.tex

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On So, 25 Apr 2010, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> we're back to the starting situation: texlive-base fails to configure
> and its configuration attempt "unconfigures" tex-common.

Can you do the following:
- edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.preinst, search for a line starting
  with
	resurrect_conffile_sid ....
  and *add* after it the following line (it is the line 226 right at the end)
	resurrect_conffile_sid /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex texlive-base "$1" "$2"

- edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.postinst, again search for
	resurrect_conffile_sid 
  (this time it is line 73) and *ADD* after that line
	resurrect_conffile_sid /etc/texmf/metafont/misc/modes.mf texlive-base

Then call
	dpkg --configure -a
and see if that works. Do *NOT* reinstall ...

Best wishes

Norbert
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Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
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