Bug#237060: Bug#232725: tetex-bin: Got the same error with 2.0.2-8 and 2.0.2-9
On 09.03.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Lars Brueckner <brueckner@ito.tu-darmstadt.de> schrieb:
> > Am Freitag, 5. März 2004 19:58 schrieb Frank Küster:
> >> Lars Brueckner <brueckner@ito.tu-darmstadt.de> schrieb:
> >> > Am Freitag, 5. März 2004 12:53 schrieb Frank Küster:
Hi,
This is about http://bugs.debian.org/237060
Resend to correct bug. Taking out Lars Brückner, adress is dead.
For any reason the submitter has corrupted/removed his
/etc/X11/app-default/XDvi which made the installation of tetex-bin
fail.
I had a look at the actual situation in TeX Live 2009: the file does
not exist any more in TL. The only file named XDvi is in
/etc/texmf/xdvi . I renamed the file and run mktexlsr. Nevertheless
"texconfig-sys init" run through fine. So I guess the situation has
been resolved.
Can we close this issue or should we reassign it to texlive-binaries?
> >> >> That _does_ help. Next question:
> >> >>
> >> >> ls -l /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/
> >> >> dlocate -L tetex-base | grep -i xdvi
> >> >> locate tetex-base_2.0.2-6
> >> >
> >> > murphy:/tmp/bugtest# ls -l /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/
> >> > insgesamt 4
> >> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2004-03-01 10:52 XDvi ->
> >> > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1494
> >> > 2004-03-04 05:38 xdvi.cfg
> >>
> >> And I assume the link target exists, as suggested by dlocate -L. So the
> >> question is: Why does kpathsea not find the file? I think the answer
> >> will be in
> >>
> >
> > The link target does not exist (creating an empty file was the work-around).
> > However, I think it was my fault. I had some troubles with X and I may have
> > corrupted the whole /etc/X11/ during fixing this.
>
> This might well be, but it isn't your fault that this stops the whole
> installation.
>
> > So I recreated the empty /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi to complete the
> > installation.
> >
> > Maybe initex could be modified to give a clear error message and
> > fail/complete it's task more gracefully.
>
> It's the texconfig script that fails, and it _has_ a check and a clear
> error message.
>
H.
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