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

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

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 07:26:19AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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?

No. I am pretty sure that the discs are OK. But will do an fsck check.

> - 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 only just noticed that mktexlsr said
  "Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R..."
                 ^^^^
I may have some historical texmf.cnf somewhere on that machine. I will
check & report back.

ael