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Bug#678711: texlive-binaries: fmtutil-sys fails



Hi,

On So, 24 Jun 2012, ael wrote:
> It is rather odd: seems to be full of ghostscript entries from an old 
> local ghostscript installation. ls-R-TEXLIVE looks much more

Ok, did you have a hard disk crash recently? The only reasonable
explanation is that your filesytem is messed up. I would suggest
running fsck manually after booting from some external media.

TO fix your problem you should do:
- remove these four files:
> 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...

- rerun mktexlsr


> I will look at that local ghostscript installation: it was needed a long
> time ago to support a Brother printer which the Debian packages did

Maybe you somehow made gs write to the wrong place, but still, my theory
is a fs inconsistency.

Best wishes

Norbert
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