Package: texlive-base-bin Version: 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny2 Severity: minor It seems that mktexlsr does not exit if some error occurs in executing the commands. This possibly results in corrupted/incomplete ls-R files, as seen more than once on alioth.debian.org (hence CC'ed Tollef, alioth admin), e.g., if you're running out of disk space (on /tmp, most probably): /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin: sed: couldn't write 6 items to stdout: No space left on device and then mt@alioth:~$ latex bla.tex This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./bla.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, croatian, ukrainian, russian, bulgarian, czech, slovak, danish, dut ch, finnish, basque, french, german, ngerman, ibycus, greek, monogreek, ancient greek, hungarian, italian, latin, mongolian, norsk, icelandic, interlingua, tur kish, coptic, romanian, welsh, serbian, slovenian, estonian, esperanto, upperso rbian, indonesian, polish, portuguese, spanish, catalan, galician, swedish, loa ded. ! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found. Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: cls) Enter file name: x (for some very minimal bla.tex) If I understood the mktexlsr code correctly, something as simple as adding "set -e" could suffice to make mktexlsr exit/fail early, and the existing ls-R file would not get overwritten. Best, Michael
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