Bug#750496: texlive-xetex crashes install
Hi
On Tue, 03 Jun 2014, Eric Fort wrote:
> 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:
Wrong.
> 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
It is the xetex binary that is crashing here, nothing else.
As a consequence the configuration doe snot succeed.
> note, I did not kill anything.... it died returning the above error.
Yes, I know. I did not say *you* killed ith with "kill -9 .." or
whatever. Something kille dit.
I asked you to run the code line I sent you.
Can you please do this, *as*root*!!!! And send the full output.
> hopefully enlarged italic red underline will demonstrate the error that is
I am using a text only mail program, all red and udnerline is not
visible to me, and completely irrelevant.
> the bug. this error crashes the apt-get process thus the install and
> configuration fails to complete. %100 repeatable
No. Wrong. Apt is *NOT* crashing. apt-get is telling you
that the configuration of texlive-xetex did not succeed. It is
doing what it is supposed to do.
It is the xetex binary that starts the problem.
Once again, please *answer* my questions, otherwsie we cannot
proceed in this bug report, I am not willing to handle your
irritation if you do no cooperate:
> > 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.
And again, please run *as*root* the following command line and send
me the *complete* output:
xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini
Norbert
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