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- Subject: tetex-bin postinst take unlimited amount of time and ram (kpsewhich took 600M and 14h)
- From: Marcin Juszkiewicz <debbugs@hrw.one.pl>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:21:00 +0100
- Message-id: <200611030921.00682.debbugs@hrw.one.pl>
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-23
Severity: important
I want to install tetex to generate some documentation. But on this
system it is stuck in postinst - looking at top it looks like kpsewhich
is a problem - it took over 600M of RAM (1.2G installed) and when I left
it for whole night it did not finished - I Ctrl-C it and will try to
remove tetex* from system.
I have no idea what can be wrong here - it works on my other machine.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc1
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.17.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dialog 1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii dpkg 1.13.24 package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-19 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkpathsea4 3.0-23 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.20 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler0c2 0.4.5-5 PDF rendering library
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-19 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.1.0-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii mime-support 3.37-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor
pn tetex-base <none> (no description available)
ii tex-common 0.37 Common infrastructure for using an
ii ucf 2.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-bin recommends:
pn libxml-parser-perl <none> (no description available)
pn perl-tk <none> (no description available)
ii psutils 1.17-23 A collection of PostScript documen
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii tex-common 0.37 Common infrastructure for using an
ii ucf 2.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2012.20120628-1
This bug should be fixed with TL 2012 and later, as this is handled
in cthe current sources.
I also cannot reproduce your problem with a *very* big home directory
I have here.
Thanks, and all the best
Norbert
On Sa, 28 Aug 2010, Thomas Adam wrote:
> When $HOME contains a trailing "/", pdftex takes an absolute age to generate
> a PDF file from a .tex source file. It seems this problem has been reported
> once before, in 2008, in Ubuntu, as per the following report:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/192877
>
> This bug is still very present in today's version of TeX Live, so I am very
> dubious about the claim that it's fixed upstream. It's easy to reproduce --
> just compare the following:
>
> 1. HOME="$HOME/" time pdftex some_file.tex
> 2. HOME="/home/$USER" time pdftex some_file.tex
>
> Running number (1) above will result in pdftex sitting there with 100% CPU
> and an ever-increasing load average. On my machine it took ~36 minutes to
> run. Compared with (2) which took 0.9 seconds.
>
> Note that this bug also affects installing TeX Live -- and in no word of a
> joke, installing the texlive meta package took over 24 hours of a straight
> run -- all because my $HOME has a trailing slash on it.
>
> Note also that I do not override the system default value of what $HOME is
> set to - so I would be very reluctant indeed to suggest that one should
> change their $HOME to not contain a trailing slash. Doing this in a shell
> startup file simply spells disaster, so this bug needs fixing upstream
> still.
>
Best wishes
Norbert
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