Bug#648278: texlive-base fails to install
Package: texlive-base
Version: 2009-14
Justification: renders package unusable
Severity: grave
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During a system upgrade, my LaTeX infrastructure failed to upgrade, causing
the upgrade to block. In the interest of getting everything else upgraded,
I uninstalled the blocking packages. Now, when trying to re-install,
I am getting the same warnings.
The texlive-base package fails to install due to a missing configuration
file. The diagnostic error output is:
# dpkg --configure texlive-base
Setting up texlive-base (2009-14) ...
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
texlive-base
Interestingly, I can find a tcfmgr.map file in /usr/share/texmf/texconfig:
# ls -l /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 401 Jul 26 2008 /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
So far, I haven't done much to try to resolve this issue, but am happy to
assist trying to resolve this.
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If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries
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error in your report.
Please run your example with
(pdf)latex -recorder ...
(or any other program that supports -recorder) and send us the generated
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If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
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you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)
or
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)
##################################
minimal input file
##################################
other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 725 Nov 10 06:25 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80 Nov 6 17:15 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 26 01:04 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Sep 20 08:11 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Sep 20 08:11 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 26 01:04 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3904 Nov 6 17:15 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9247 Nov 6 17:15 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 730 Nov 6 17:15 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Aug 24 2006 mktex.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
3875bf0f4a53a29b7f247399dc9833e2 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
6e82a3d4c00ae7e4f86aa8dcf9438cf3 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
c60a084820a0b73e3bfbf2e90bda437c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
afccf1d3f87057411166a77c58e00bd1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
9da7c1c7b1eaf06f941af91f48a23068 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
7ae52efac46feb97010986e57877d12e /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf
37329819f1109e8a457e64b8b58fecdb /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
a8952d594677235951d447665ec46e9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
402d5adb3864c09ed3cd80c0f2131361 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41
ii dpkg 1.16.1.1
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-8
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu1
ii luatex 0.70.1-1+b1
ii mime-support 3.51-1
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu1
ii tex-common 2.10
ii texlive-binaries 2009-11
ii texlive-common 2009-14
ii texlive-doc-base 2009-2
Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii lmodern 2.004.1-3
Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.04~dfsg-2
ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.7.2-2
ii perl-tk 1:804.029-1.1
ii xpdf [pdf-viewer] 3.03-7
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41
ii dpkg 1.16.1.1
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu2
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 8.9.9
Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
ii tex-common 2.10
ii texlive-binaries 2009-11
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