Bug#952481: texlive: mktexpk fails to create tcrm1000

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Holger,

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, Holger Wansing wrote:
> The TMPDIR variable is set to 'build.tmp' so it's strange that mktexpk tries to
> use 'build.tmp.el.i386' which is in fact not existing...

Hmm, you could throw in a set -x into mktex.opt to see what is going on.

> generated, the process fails at another (later) step.

What was the error?

> I installed cm-super on the machine, but the build fails with the same error
> (with the same mktexph call).

Interesting.

> Why mktexpk is called to use that jknappen font from tcrm?

LaTeX kernel internals.

> PS: in case you need the original code of installation-guide, it's here:
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/-/tree/master/build
> the PDF generation is in buildone.sh starting from line 186.

I tried to reproduce your problem here, by running the build process to
generate the LL directories, then running
	./buildone.sh amd64 el pdf
This gave me an error, but it is different from yours, and quite sure a
failure in the TeX code:

~/DebInstaller/installation-guide/build] ./buildone.sh amd64 el pdf
Info: creating temporary profiled .xml file...
Info: creating .pdf file...
xelatex failed
install.el.profiled.tex:3389: Command \textBeta unavailable in encoding TU.
install.el.profiled.tex:3389: leading text: ...ην ενÏÏ
                                                          ηÏ
                                                             α Τμήμα \ref{preseed-bootparms}
install.el.profiled.tex:3389: Command \textdexiakeraia unavailable in encoding TU.
install.el.profiled.tex:3389: leading text: ...ην ενÏÏ
                                                          ηÏ
                                                             α Τμήμα \ref{preseed-bootparms}
install.el.profiled.tex:3391: Command \textBeta unavailable in encoding TU.
install.el.profiled.tex:3391: leading text: ...ίÏ
                                                  ε Ï
                                                      ην ενÏÏ
                                                                 ηÏ
                                                                    α Τμήμα \ref{preseed-auto}
install.el.profiled.tex:3391: Command \textdexiakeraia unavailable in encoding TU.
install.el.profiled.tex:3391: leading text: ...ίÏ
                                                  ε Ï
                                                      ην ενÏÏ
                                                                 ηÏ
                                                                    α Τμήμα \ref{preseed-auto}

A possible reason for transformation failure is invalid DocBook
(as reported by xmllint)

Error: xelatex compilation failed
Error: build of pdf failed with error code 1
Warning: The following formats failed to build: pdf
$


Could you please
- get the **generated** TeX code
- the log file from the failed run
- the output of `set` before xelatex is called
- the full list of texlive and font packages being installed
?

Thanks

Best

Norbert

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