Bug#907380: tex-common: setting up of tex-common fails
Dear Norbert,
it turned out that dpkg-reconfigure has a problem with my PATH, i.e.
my path is prepended with:
PATH=.:bin:{{other dirs}}
when I modified it into PATH=.:{{other dirs}} dpkg had no more
problems.
My guess is that all this came out with the last version of bash,
upgraded just a few days ago.
In fact, if I try to run update-updmap from directory / as probably
dpkg is doing, with bin inside my path I obtain:
root@fulvio:/# echo $PATH
bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin
root@fulvio:/# update-updmap
Regenerating '/var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN'... done.
/usr/sbin/update-updmap: line 235: bin/mkdir: No such file or directory
wow, lots of problems with bin in the path:
root@fulvio:/# cd /usr/sbin
root@fulvio:/usr/sbin# ls
bash: bin/ls: No such file or directory
ok, nothing to do with tex-common anyhow, sorry.
Fulvio
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:16:07 +0200,
Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > root@fulvio:/home/fc# dpkg --configure tex-common
>
> That doesn't work for me at all:
> $ dpkg --configure tex-common
> dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
> package tex-common is already installed and configured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> tex-common
> $
>
> But I tried dpkg-reconfigure which should do the same:
> $ dpkg-reconfigure tex-common
> Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
> Running mtxrun --generate. This may take some time... done.
> Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
> Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.
> Building format(s) --all.
> This may take some time... done.
> $
>
> Can you please edit
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst
> and add a
> set -x
> near the top, then call dpkg --configure again and send the output,
> probably capturing it with tee or similar method.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Norbert
>
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