Bug#750496: texlive-xetex crashes install

AGAIN..... IT'S THE INSTALLATION THAT'S THE ISSUE, *****NOT THE XETEX BINARY***** dpkg is crashing on this one and only pkg, **NOT** the xetex binary itself! follow along below:

Setting up texlive-xetex (2012.20120611-5) ...

Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.

Building format(s) --all --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-xetex.cnf.

This may take some time...

fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in

/tmp/fmtutil.zIrRSYq7

Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing texlive-xetex (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

texlive-xetex

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

/tmp/fmtutil.zIrRSYq7

fmtutil: running `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' ...

This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012/Debian) (INITEX)

restricted \write18 enabled.

Killed

note, I did not kill anything.... it died returning the above error. hopefully enlarged italic red underline will demonstrate the error that is the bug. this error crashes the apt-get process thus the install and configuration fails to complete. %100 repeatable

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

tags 750496 + unreproducible more-info
severity 750496 normal
thanks

> fmtutil: running `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex
> xelatex.ini' ...
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
> (INITEX)
> restricted \write18 enabled.
> Killed

Since it was killed there was either a watchdog running, or
you have mixed libraries which created memory faults, or updated
whatever other lib xetex relies on.

Is this system a pure installation without any additional
out-of-release package?

You might also be low on diskspace, or on memory, or have and
hardware error.

Many thing that are possuble.

You could try to run the program from the command line -

BUT AS *ONE* (as in 1) line (you did it already, but on two lines
...argg)

xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini

(agian, ONE LINE!!!)

Norbert

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