Bug#673022: texlive-base: happened with upgrade to 2013.20140123-1 from 2013.20140314-1

One more thing I forgot to mention: I run a weekly backup of /etc, so it you think it would be helpful,

I can send you a gzip version of /etc/texmf/fmt.d from a few days before the failed upgrade of texlive-base.

This would be the /etc/texmf/fmt.d that was in place at the time the texlive-base upgrade failed.

thanks,
--jack

From: JS <jshaio@yahoo.com>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>; "673022@bugs.debian.org" <673022@bugs.debian.org>
Cc: "jshaio@yahoo.com" <jshaio@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#673022: texlive-base: happened with upgrade to 2013.20140123-1 from 2013.20140314-1

I forgot to mention:

>The file ebcdic.ocp is in texlive-omega, which also defines the
>aleph format. So the only ideas I have is:
>* you had a harddrive problme and parts ofthe installation got missing
> (-> nothing we can work around or do anything)

I don't think this is likely as I tried this install several times, with the same error,

but it worked perfectly when I removed texlive-base and reinstalled from scratch

>* you have yourself removed parts of the installed files
> (-> nothing we can work around)

This did not happen as I run debsums --all --changed --generate=missing nightly and

can see from the logfile from before the install that no texlive-* packages were affected

> * you have changed the confirguration in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
> (-> nothing we can work around, that is your responsibility)

As above, the fact that debsums did not flag this package shows there were no config

changes (+ the fact that I only did an apt-get remove texlive, so the following apt-get install

would have asked about overriding config files, which it did not).

The only thing I have done over and above these (excellent) texlive-* packages is add a

package I made myself with the Springer-Verlag Latex macros, which I understand

debian cannot package as they provide no copyright information. Perhaps dealing

with this unexpected package caused a problem (although it has never caused a

problem with previous texlive-base upgrades)?

=> dpkg --status svjour
Package: svjour
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 463
Maintainer: JS <jshaio@yahoo.com>
Architecture: all
Version: 3.1.0-5
Depends: texlive-binaries (>= 2009)
Description: LaTex macros for all Springer journals
Contains all the Springer LaTex macros
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svjour3/
Homepage: http://www.springer.com/authors/journal+authors/faq+for+journal+authors?SGWID=0-1725015-0-0-0

This package was installed long ago and caused no problems for any previous texlive-base upgrade:

2012-08-12 12:15:33 status installed svjour:all 3.1.0-5

thanks,
--jack

From: JS <jshaio@yahoo.com>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>; "673022@bugs.debian.org" <673022@bugs.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#673022: texlive-base: happened with upgrade to 2013.20140123-1 from 2013.20140314-1

Norbert,

Yes, I do have texlive-omega installed; here are a few lines from dpkg.log showing it's been

installed before this upgrade was made:

2014-02-03 20:57:28 upgrade texlive-omega:all 2013.20131112-1 2013.20131219-1
2014-02-03 21:08:07 configure texlive-omega:all 2013.20131219-1 <none>
2014-02-03 21:08:10 status installed texlive-omega:all 2013.20131219-1
2014-02-03 21:08:24 status installed texlive-omega:all 2013.20131219-1
2014-02-06 11:13:31 upgrade texlive-omega:all 2013.20131219-1 2013.20140123-1
2014-02-06 11:16:02 configure texlive-omega:all 2013.20140123-1 <none>
2014-02-06 11:16:05 status installed texlive-omega:all 2013.20140123-1
2014-02-06 11:16:19 status installed texlive-omega:all 2013.20140123-1
2014-03-23 11:03:39 remove texlive-omega:all 2013.20140123-1 <none> <<<<< removed only as part of apt-get remove texlive-base to fix install
2014-03-23 11:03:39 status installed texlive-omega:all 2013.20140123-1
2014-03-23 11:11:43 install texlive-omega:all 2013.20140123-1 2013.20140314-1
2014-03-23 11:14:37 configure texlive-omega:all 2013.20140314-1 <none>
2014-03-23 11:14:40 status installed texlive-omega:all 2013.20140314-1

thanks,
--jack

From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
To: js <jshaio@yahoo.com>; 673022@bugs.debian.org
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#673022: texlive-base: happened with upgrade to 2013.20140123-1 from 2013.20140314-1

Hi,

what you reported is a different item, but please wait before opening
a new bug, because ....

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, js wrote:
> Workaround: I ran apt-get remove texlive-base, followed by an apt-get install
> of texlive-base and all the other packages removed because of texlive-base.
> This install from scratch,without a prior version of texlive-base, worked fine.

Well, then it is now impossible to reproduce, unless you have
some more information about the former state:
* did you have texlive-omega installed?
* what was the content of /etc/texmf/fmt.d

> I'll include the zipped file /tmp/fmtutil.3YhQeNol in the next email.

Which barfs at:
kpathsea: Running mkocp ebcdic.ocp
otp2ocp: fatal: File 'ebcdic' not found.

The file ebcdic.ocp is in texlive-omega, which also defines the
aleph format. So the only ideas I have is:
* you had a harddrive problme and parts ofthe installation got missing
(-> nothing we can work around or do anything)
* you have yourself removed parts of the installed files
(-> nothing we can work around)
* you have changed the confirguration in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
(-> nothing we can work around, that is your responsibility)

If you cannot give us a recipe to reproduce this error, or more
information, I would close a new bug.

Thanks for your understanding

Norbert

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