Package: texlive-base
Version: 2020.20210202-3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: he...@shayandoust.me
Dear Maintainer,
All tex packages were working fine for me until a couple of days ago,
when I did an apt update. I realised that texlive-base could not
configure itself. Unfortunately, no logs on that.
I did however purge and remove any stray files/directories belonging to
anything tex on my machine. I then proceeded to apt install texlive-base
to see if I can rectify the issue with a reinstall. I get the following
output:
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Setting up texlive-binaries (2020.20200327.54578-7) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw to provide /usr/bin/xdvi.bin
(xdvi.bin) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/bibtex.original to provide /usr/bin/bibtex
(bibtex) in auto mode
Setting up lmodern (2.004.5-6.1) ...
Setting up texlive-base (2020.20210202-3) ...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
Can't use string ("2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
/usr/bin/tl-paper line 112.
Can't use string ("2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
/usr/bin/tl-paper line 112.
Can't use string ("2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
/usr/bin/tl-paper line 112.
Can't use string ("2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
/usr/bin/tl-paper line 112.
Can't use string ("2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
/usr/bin/tl-paper line 112.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-base (--configure):
installed texlive-base package post-installation script subprocess returned
error exit status 1
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-10) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (6.7.0.dfsg.2-6) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.69) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.13.1-4.2) ...
Processing triggers for tex-common (6.16) ...
texlive-base is not ready, delaying updmap-sys call
update-language: texlive-base not installed and configured, doing nothing!
texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil --all call
Errors were encountered while processing:
texlive-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I am not quite sure what is going on here. I also attempted to remove
this package and install the texlive-full metapackage, however that
fails due to the cascading issue relating to texlive-base not being
configured & failing.
Any help and suggestions is much appreciated. I am not sure if this is
related to the package or not - it seems to be with the postinst script.
I am currently running on a system where sources.list is set to
bullseye.
Please feel free to write back if you require any further information,
or if there is something trivial and non-package related, to which I
understand this bug report being closed.
##################################
minimal input file
##################################
other files
######################################
List of ls-R files
lrwxrwxrwx 31 root 17 Feb 20:30 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R ->
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
######################################
Config files
.rw-r--r-- 475 root 28 Mar 14:47 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
Warning: fmtutil.cnf cannot be found with kpsewhich!
Warning: updmap.cfg cannot be found with kpsewhich!
Warning: language.dat cannot be found with kpsewhich!
######################################
Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
.rw-r--r-- 283 root 12 Feb 22:13 mktex.cnf
.rw-r--r-- 475 root 28 Mar 14:47 texmf.cnf
######################################
md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.75
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.28+b1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.14
ii tex-common 6.16
ii texlive-binaries 2020.20200327.54578-7
ii ucf 3.0043
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4
Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii lmodern 2.004.5-6.1
Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii evince [postscript-viewer] 3.38.2-1
ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.53.3~dfsg-7
ii perl-tk 1:804.035-0.1+b1
pn xpdf | pdf-viewer <none>
pn xzdec <none>
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii dpkg 1.20.7.1
ii ucf 3.0043
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 13.3.4
Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
ii tex-common 6.16
ii texlive-binaries 2020.20200327.54578-7
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults'
-- debconf information:
texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi
texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant:
