Bug#580223: kpsewhich runs in endlees loop, symlink loop

2010-05-05 Thread Frank Küster
Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de wrote: I think kpsewhich should never search in /sys. Also /proc and other directories may be omitted. Indeed - but I don't see why it would. There must be some strange configuration on the system. You do have an interactive shell in the chroot,

Bug#580223: kpsewhich runs in endlees loop, symlink loop

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: texlive-binaries Version: 2009-5 Severity: minor If I install software inside a chroot (squeeze) environment, sometimes kpsewhich runs into an endless loop and hangs. This is some part of the output: Processing triggers for tex-common ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time...