Hi Marcin, thinking about it, I have one more question:
Marcin Juszkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 12:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:hrw# time LC_ALL=C apt-get install tetex-extra [...] > Setting up tetex-base (3.0.dfsg.3-1) ... > done > > Creating config file /etc/texdoctk/texdocrc with new version > > [1]+ Stopped LC_ALL=C apt-get install tetex-extra > > real 22m59.381s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.001s > 12:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:hrw# Are you sure that this is the only output? There's no indication in it that it has started to configure tetex-bin yet. However, in the ps output: > ps afx output taken when it was not stopped (cut to related things): > > 13780 ? Ss 0:01 kdeinit Running... > 13836 ? S 3:46 \_ konsole [kdeinit] > 13838 pts/1 Ss 0:00 | \_ /bin/bash > 30006 pts/11 S 0:00 | | \_ bash > 11472 pts/11 S+ 0:00 | | \_ apt-get install tetex-extra > 12062 pts/11 S+ 0:00 | | \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 18 > --configure tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra > 12063 pts/11 S+ 0:00 | | \_ /bin/sh -e > /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst configure > 13337 pts/11 R+ 7:06 | | \_ kpsewhich > --format=web2c files fmtutil.cnf > > 30027 pts/11 S 0:00 /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst > configure > 30211 pts/11 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/fmtutil --all > 6929 pts/11 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/fmtutil --all > 6930 pts/11 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/fmtutil --all > 6931 pts/11 R 11:09 \_ kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFMAIN tetex-bin's postinst script is already being run. Does anybody know whether it is expected that a maintainer script does not look like being a child of "apt-get", as is the case here for tetex-bin? And what happens if you enter those commands on the command line: kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFMAIN TIA, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)