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Bug#678711: marked as done (texlive-binaries: fmtutil-sys fails)

Your message dated Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:45:53 +0900
with message-id <20120706234553.GC24423@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
and subject line Re: Bug#678711: texlive-binaries: fmtutil-sys fails
has caused the Debian Bug report #678711,
regarding texlive-binaries: fmtutil-sys fails
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Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2012.20120530-2+b1
Severity: important

Trying to configure texlive-binaries fails:-

-------------------------------------------------------------
# dpkg --configure texlive-binaries
Setting up texlive-binaries (2012.20120530-2+b1) ...
mktexlsr: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN: no magic string, skipping...
mktexlsr: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST: no magic string, skipping...
mktexlsr: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN: no magic string, skipping...
mktexlsr: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R: no magic string, skipping...
mktexlsr: Done.
Building format(s) --refresh.
        This may take some time... 
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.ABmstOUu
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing texlive-binaries (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texlive-binaries
-----------------------------------------------------------

This does not seem to be the same as #665644 in that

----------------------------------------------------
$ kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFMAIN
warning: kpathsea: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
/usr/share/texlive/texmf
---------------------------------------------------------------

and 
------------------------------------------------------------
$ ls -l /var/lib/texmf/
total 1756
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 May 21 12:45 dvipdfmx
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 May 21 12:45 dvips
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 May  4  2008 fonts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1706 Jun 23 14:19 ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 595090 May 21 09:52 ls-R-TEXLIVE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 955844 Jun 23 14:19 ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3540 Jun 23 14:18 ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130547 May  4  2008 ls-R-TEXMFDIST-TETEX
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  50918 Jun 23 14:19 ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Aug 16  2006 tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3832 Jun 23 14:18 updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2660 Jun 23 14:18 updmap.cfg-TEXLIVEDIST
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root   4096 Jun 23 22:29 web2c
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 May 21 12:45 xdvi
----------------------------------------------------------------

The contents of /tmp/fmtutil.ABmstOUu:

-----------------------------------------------------
warning: kpathsea: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found (ls-R missing?).
----------------------------------------------------------

tcfmgr.map is here in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig:

---------------------------------------
$ ls -l /usr/share/texlive/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 401 Jul 26  2008 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map

---------------------------------------



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0_c2+
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-binaries depends on:
ii  dpkg            1.16.3
ii  ed              1.6-2
ii  install-info    4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii  libc6           2.13-33
ii  libfontconfig1  2.9.0-6
ii  libfreetype6    2.4.9-1
ii  libgcc1         1:4.7.0-8
ii  libgraphite3    1:2.3.1-0.2
ii  libkpathsea6    2012.20120530-2+b1
ii  libpng12-0      1.2.49-1
ii  libpoppler19    0.18.4-2
ii  libptexenc1     2012.20120530-2+b1
ii  libstdc++6      4.7.0-8
ii  libx11-6        2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  libxaw7         2:1.0.10-2
ii  libxmu6         2:1.1.1-1
ii  libxpm4         1:3.5.10-1
ii  libxt6          1:1.1.3-1
ii  perl            5.14.2-11
ii  tex-common      3.13
ii  texlive-common  2012.20120611-1
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.7.dfsg-11+b1

Versions of packages texlive-binaries recommends:
ii  luatex          0.70.1.20120524-2
ii  python          2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  ruby            4.9
ii  ruby1.8 [ruby]  1.8.7.358-4
iu  texlive-base    2012.20120611-1
ii  tk8.4 [wish]    8.4.19-5
ii  tk8.5 [wish]    8.5.11-2

texlive-binaries suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Hi,

On Fr, 06 Jul 2012, ael wrote:
> All I found was that various ls-R* files were wrong. Removing them
> allowed mktexlsr to run properly and all the texlive updates to
> complete.

Good, ok that problem is solved.

> I have no idea how the incorrect ls-R files were produced,
> but they all seem to be dated 23rd June when I returned
> from an absence and did a full aptitude update. Similar updates
> on other machines did not have problems.
> 
> For what it is worth, here are some details of bad files:
> 
> 
> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
> 
> The old file, which caused the trouble, created on 23rd June, was:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> 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 zero byte characters)

As said, combining this - which has at least some reference to TeX
shipped stuff, with ...

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 955844 Jun 23 14:19 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
> which starts (hexdump)
> 
> 00000000  2f 70 72 74 70 6f 6f 6c  2e 68 00 2f 75 73 72 33  |/prtpool.h./usr3|
> 00000010  32 2f 69 6e 63 6c 75 64  65 2f 6d 6f 7a 69 6c 6c  |2/include/mozill|
> 00000020  61 2d 31 2e 36 2f 6e 73  70 72 2f 70 72 74 72 61  |a-1.6/nspr/prtra|
> 00000030  63 65 2e 68 00 2f 75 73  72 33 32 2f 69 6e 63 6c  |ce.h./usr32/incl|
> 00000040  75 64 65 2f 6d 6f 7a 69  6c 6c 61 2d 31 2e 36 2f  |ude/mozilla-1.6/|
> 00000050  6e 73 70 72 2f 70 72 74  79 70 65 73 2e 68 00 2f  |nspr/prtypes.h./|
...

that that is for sure in *no* relation to TeX nor can any of the postinstall
code produce something like this unless the kernel/filesystem is broken,
I decide that this is not a bug of texlive-binaries.

> So I guess I should close the bug, although I suspect there was some
> sort of buglet triggered in an configuration script on 23rd June
> in one of the tex packages.

Might be, but not in texlive-binaries, nor in any of the scripts
I have access to. 

Anyway,thanks for looking into it, good that the problem is solved, so
let us close this mysterious bug.

If it happens again and you can reliably reproduce it, please unearth it
again.

Best wishes

Norbert
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