Bug#678711: Update

[ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com>]

Sorry for delay...

1) I did an fsck on all disks, as suggested, just in case.
  No disc problems reported. 

2) Playing with strace on kpse-which --show-path=ls-R shows that the file
  on which it chokes is 
    /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R
which contains:
--------------------------------------------
fetex
# . call update-fmtutil
# . call fmtutil-sys --missing (or --all)
#
#cyrtexinfo pdfetex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx *cyrtxinf.ini
# End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/50cyrtexinfo.cnf
----------------------------------------------------
(followed by trailing nulls)
which looks odd to me.

It seems to come from texinfo.
 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R
  is a link to /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN

I will answer the other questions & report further later.

ael