Bug#678711: Update
Sorry for delay...
1) I did an fsck on all disks, as suggested, just in case.
No disc problems reported.
2) Playing with strace on kpse-which --show-path=ls-R shows that the file
on which it chokes is
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R
which contains:
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fetex
# . call update-fmtutil
# . call fmtutil-sys --missing (or --all)
#
#cyrtexinfo pdfetex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx *cyrtxinf.ini
# End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/50cyrtexinfo.cnf
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(followed by trailing nulls)
which looks odd to me.
It seems to come from texinfo.
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R
is a link to /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
I will answer the other questions & report further later.
ael
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