Bug#316245: tetex-bin: postinst failure while building etex and pdfetex formats

2005-09-09 Thread Frank Küster
Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just remove /etc/texmf/plain and reinstall again. > > Thank you for this clear statement. One word of caution: dpkg doesn't restore files in /etc. I *think* that it will install the file if the directory is missing. But it may also not do this, us

Bug#316245: tetex-bin: postinst failure while building etex and pdfetex formats

2005-09-09 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
> This bug is pretty confusing, but I think that it is either due to some > particular problem on your machine (hardware or improper user action), I vote for the latter since my hardware is extremely stable. > or due to a problem when upgrading between particular versions in > experimental that I

Bug#316245: tetex-bin: postinst failure while building etex and pdfetex formats

2005-09-09 Thread Frank Küster
Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, that symlink is contained in the package tetex-base itself >> (i.e. created during build time). Do you have any clue, why it >> was not written to the disk? > > I removed it myself to get rid of the circular symlink. > > When I reinstall tetex-ba

Bug#316245: tetex-bin: postinst failure while building etex and pdfetex formats

2005-09-09 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
> Well, that symlink is contained in the package tetex-base itself > (i.e. created during build time). Do you have any clue, why it > was not written to the disk? I removed it myself to get rid of the circular symlink. When I reinstall tetex-base on a system where both language.def symlinks are r

Bug#316245: tetex-bin: postinst failure while building etex and pdfetex formats

2005-09-08 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 01.09.05 Laurent Bonnaud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, > I have attached the fmtutil log file. > > Now here is the info you requested the first time: > > $ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/ > total 36 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2004-03-22 19:52 aleph.ini > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Bug#316245: tetex-bin: postinst failure while building etex and pdfetex formats

2005-08-04 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
> Do you still have the package installed in your chroot, or do you get > the same error if you try again (the version in experimental is now > 3.0-5)? I cannot reproduce this bug any longer therefore I will close it. Thank you for the fix ! -- Laurent Bonnaud. http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_pe

Bug#316245: tetex-bin: postinst failure while building etex and pdfetex formats

2005-08-01 Thread Frank Küster
clone 316245 -1 retitle -1 bogus warning fro fmtutil: "run as root", although fmtutil-sys has been used severity -1 minor # the original bug report #316245 is still important thanks Dear Laurent, please take our apologies for not answering to this bug report. I hope we can still analyse it now