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Package: texlive-base
Version: 2013.20131219-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
Installation of the package fails, here is the output of aptitude:
root@mini:/home/john# aptitude install texlive-base
The following NEW packages will be installed:
texlive-base
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
lmodern
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/16.1 MB of archives. After unpacking 44.1 MB will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package texlive-base.
(Reading database ... 180342 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../texlive-base_2013.20131219-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking texlive-base (2013.20131219-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
Setting up texlive-base (2013.20131219-1) ...
cp: ‘/var/lib/ucf/hashfile.6’ and ‘/var/lib/ucf/hashfile.7’ are the
same file
dpkg: error processing package texlive-base (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
texlive-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up texlive-base (2013.20131219-1) ...
cp: ‘/var/lib/ucf/hashfile.6’ and ‘/var/lib/ucf/hashfile.7’ are the
same file
dpkg: error processing package texlive-base (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
texlive-base
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(or any other program that supports -recorder) and send us the generated
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 320 Jan 3 12:36 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 15 2013 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 19 16:07 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 19 16:07 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
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Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Oct 8 10:40 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2358 Jan 3 12:36 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Dec 19 16:07 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-TEXLIVEDIST
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 504 Jan 3 12:36 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 283 Mar 23 2011 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Oct 8 10:40 texmf.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.52
ii dpkg 1.17.5
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu2
ii luatex 0.76.0-3
ii tex-common 4.04
ii texlive-binaries 2013.20130729.30972-2+b1
ii ucf 3.0027+nmu1
ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7
Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
pn lmodern <none>
Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii evince-gtk [postscript-viewer] 3.10.0-1+b1
ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.05~dfsg-8+b1
pn perl-tk <none>
pn xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer <none>
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.52
ii dpkg 1.17.5
ii ucf 3.0027+nmu1
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 9.20131227
Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
ii tex-common 4.04
ii texlive-binaries 2013.20130729.30972-2+b1
-- debconf information:
texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi
texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
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Hi everyone,
First of all, for hte OP: please *FOLLOW* the advice given to
you and keep the bug email in Cc, otherwise we can only guess.
Grumpf.....is it so hard.
> > A couple of weeks ago I ran a utility called rdfind to replace
> > identical files with hard links to save space on this laptop, so I
> > guess most likely this is an unintended side-effect of that.
Ok, closing this bug. You are not supposed to play around in this way
in the system files. Run rdfind in your home dir, that is fine. But
not on system level.
Furthermore, this is aproblem of ucf, and at most a wishlist bug.
Closing it, as it is not a bug but error of user.
Norbert
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