Bug#673022: texlive-base: cannot upgrade to 2011.20120509-1

[Frank Kuester <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:

> Only two quick answers
>
>
>> The only clear text in that garbled output is $DebCnfFile. This string
>> occurse in /usr/share/texlive-bin/debianize-fmtutil, which is sourced by
>> fmtutil.  AFAIS it should only be called when the argument to fmtutil
>> isn't --all, but --enable Map.  
>
> Huuu? fmtutil does not understand map!

--enablefmt, of course 

>> exec fmtutil ${1+"$@"}
>> exec sh -x /usr/bin/fmtutil ${1+"$@"}
>
> AFAIU it happens only on upgrade ... so that does not help.

If I remember correctly, the upgrade was not yet successful. When trying
again (aptitude safe-upgrade, dpkg --configure or whatever), this should
give more output.

Regards, Frank