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** Changed in: texlive-bin (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223985
Title:
kpsewhich infinite recursion in /proc
Status in “texlive-bin” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Binary package hint: texlive-base-bin
I'm currently doing an update-manager upgrade from Gutsy to 8.04 and
the setting up of the texlive-lang-danish (and other) packages is
taking virtually forever due to an infinite recursion in directory
traversal. I also experienced this when recently updating a Feisty
system to Gutsy. The precise command being run is 'kpsewhich
language.dat'. When you strace it, you see it traversing through
directories like this:
stat64("./proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/proc/self/task/32415/cwd/<path
to real file here>
PID 32415 is the kpsewhich process itself. When I kill the process to
get things to move along, dpkg leaves the otuput of the command in
/tmp/fmtutil.<mktemp> which says, "fmtutil: no format depends on `//'"
So it seems like something is using an include/dependency path of //
instead of /usr/share/texmf or something sane.
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