Hello Marcin, do you just rarely use this machine, or have you forgotten about the problem? I hope you don't mind that I "ping" you.
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcin Juszkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND >> 2077 ? Ss 0:01 kdeinit Running... >> >> 2203 ? S 2:48 \_ konsole [kdeinit] >> >> 29185 pts/12 Ss 0:00 | \_ /bin/bash >> 29215 pts/12 S 0:00 | | \_ bash >> 460 pts/12 Sl+ 0:05 | | \_ aptitude install >> openembedded-essential >> 1354 pts/12 S+ 0:00 | | \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 17 >> --configure libkpathsea4 tex-common tetex-base tetex-bin texinfo sgml-base >> xml-core sgml-data docbook libosp5 libostyle1c2 openjade docbook-dsssl >> tetex-extra tipa jadetex libsgmls-perl sgmlspl docbook-utils >> openembedded-essential >> 1975 pts/12 S+ 0:00 | | \_ /bin/sh -e >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst configure >> 3268 pts/12 R+ 147:15 | | \_ kpsewhich >> --format=web2c files fmtutil.cnf >> >> 'openembedded-essential' is metapackage: > > Am I right that there was no parallel running of tetex-bin's configure > script, as in the first listing? Then I guess we can forget this, it > was just an other hanging script that was left over from a previous > run. And it is just the kpsewhich call in tetex-base's postinst script > that hangs. This was true, wasn't it? >> 15:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:hrw$ ls /tmp/ -a >> . gconfd-hrw index.html?sm_command=build ksocket-hrw >> orbit-root v995212 >> .. gconfd-root index.html?sm_command=build.1 mc-hrw >> ssh-UvPBQF1982 vmware-hrw >> album_info.xml gpg-eIVKXi kde-hrw mc-root >> test .X0-lock >> aptitudeEwiQYu .ICE-unix kde-hrw~ orbit-hrw >> v920934 .X11-unix > > nothing tetex'ish yet. > > Can you try to call kpsewhich directly while it is hanging, like this: > > kpsewhich -debug=126 --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf 2>&1 | tee > kpsewhich.log > > I guess you will have to kill that process, because it will hang, too. > Then send us the log file, or better copy the log file before you kill > it and send us this version. Maybe even > > strace -o kpsewhich.trace kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf > > and the resulting file kpsewhich.trace would be needed. These two things would be very valuable. Thank you in advance, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)