Bug#579000: texlive-base: fails to configure: fmtutil-sys failed: cannot find pdftexconfig.tex
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:59:47PM +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> On 24.04.10 Lionel Elie Mamane (lionel@mamane.lu) wrote:
>> $ grep -A1 '^Package: tex-common' /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> Package: tex-common
>> Status: install ok half-configured
>> $
>> But indeed, if I use reportbug to create a new bug report for
>> texlive-base, it shows tex-common as desired/status pn. This might
>> be a bug in how reportbug queries the state of tex-common.
> Will you file a new bug? Thanks!
Done.
>> $ sudo dpkg --configure texlive-base
>> Setting up texlive-base (2009-8) ...
>> 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.OKYxWvL9
>> Please include this file if you report a bug.
> I guess the build of the formats fails with the same error message as
> before, right?
Yes. Norbert had me tweak the postinst to "resurrect" the missing
config file and now it works.
--
Lionel
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