Bug#679073: texlive-base: failed during dist-upgrade (/usr/bin/fmtutil: Segmentation fault)

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 26.06.12 Lukasz Pakula (pepesz@gmail.com) wrote:

Hi,

> Q1:
> root@Cawdor:~# COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l 'libkpathsea*' texlive-binaries
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                                         Version
> Description
> +++-============================================-============================================-========================================================================================================
> ii  libkpathsea5                                 2009-8
> TeX Live: path search library for TeX (runtime part)
> ii  texlive-binaries                             2009-8
> Binaries for TeX Live
> root@Cawdor:~#
> 
You still have TL 2009 on your disc. From which version of Debian do
you try to upgrade to which one?

> root@Cawdor:~# ulimit -c 1000000
> root@Cawdor:~# pdftex -ini -jobname=etex -progname=etex
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx '*etex.ini'
> 
Could you set back to "ulimit -c 0" and then run

strace pdftex -ini ......

Redirect stderr to a file and send it here. You may do this as normal
user, not root.

H.
-- 
sigmentation fault