Bug#711462: tex-common: updmap-sys fails; missing map files

[Calum Mackay <calum.mackay@cdmnet.org>]

thanks much, Norbert,

> that looks all very strange ...

sorry...

> Is texlive-lang-other correctly instaled?

aha! that seems to be the problem.


> Can you run
> 	debsums texlive-lang-other


calum@getz:~$ debsums texlive-lang-other
debsums: package texlive-lang-other is not installed


calum@getz:~$ dpkg -l texlive-lang-other
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      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
iU  texlive-lang-o 2013.2013053 all          TeX Live: Other languages


calum@getz:~$ sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-other
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
texlive-lang-other is already the newest version.


I wonder how it got in that state?


> You might fix errors by reinstalling texlive-lang-other.

mmm, there's something badly wrong here...

calum@getz:~$ sudo apt-get update
	...

calum@getz:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install texlive-lang-other
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 29 not 
upgraded.
33 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for texlive-lang-other:amd64


calum@getz:~$ apt-show-versions texlive-lang-other
texlive-lang-other/sid uptodate 2013.20130530-1


calum@getz:~$ sudo dpkg -i 
/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-lang-other_2013.20130530-1_all.deb
(Reading database ... 282627 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace texlive-lang-other 2013.20130530-1 (using 
.../texlive-lang-other_2013.20130530-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement texlive-lang-other ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-other:
 texlive-lang-other depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-other (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texlive-lang-other


calum@getz:~$ sudo dpkg --configure tex-common
Setting up tex-common (4.03) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.ePqH31fb
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail.  Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common


calum@getz:~$ sudo cat /tmp/updmap.ePqH31fb
updmap is using the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order):
  /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
updmap is using the following updmap.cfg file for writing changes:
  /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
dvips output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap"
pdftex output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap"
dvipdfmx output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap"
pxdvi output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pxdvi/updmap"

ERROR:  The following map file(s) couldn't be found:
        arevvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        chartervn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        cjhebrew.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        cmbrightvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        concretevn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        grotesqvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        nectec.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        nf.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        syriac.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        tlwg.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        txttvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        urwvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        vnrother.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        vnrtext.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
        vntopia.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)

        Did you run mktexlsr?

        You can disable non-existent map entries using the option
          --syncwithtrees.



any ideas how I might recover, please?


thanks much.

cheers,
c.