Package: texlive-pdfetex Version: 2005.dfsg.2-12 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi,
this is probably a duplicate but I have no idea how to divine the root cause. Bugs that look similar are #419893 and #421969. I was doing a regular apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and got stuck over the package 'tipa'. I've tried removing it and get clobbered by texlive-pdfetex trying to configure itself, so I'm filing here. Feel free to reassign/merge etc. My goal in filing is to request a little assistance untangling the mess and to let you know of possible problems in other formerly-depending-on-tetex packages. The failure takes this form: # apt-get --purge remove tipa Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: docbook-utils* jadetex* tipa* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 6 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7033kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 139907 files and directories currently installed.) Removing docbook-utils ... Removing jadetex ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Purging configuration files for jadetex ... Replacing config file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version Removing tipa ... Running 'mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf /var/lib/texmf'. This may take some time... done. Running 'updmap-sys'. This may take some time... done. Purging configuration files for tipa ... Setting up texlive-pdfetex (2005.dfsg.2-12) ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --byfmt etex. This may take some time... fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Iwa27687 Please include this file if you report a bug. ... apt-get log truncated ... # cat /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Iwa27687 fmtutil: format `etex' not available. packages.d.o says the 'etex' binary comes from usr/bin/etex tex/tetex-bin, tex/texlive-base-bin /usr/bin/etex does exist however; it's a symlink to /usr/bin/pdfetex which also exists. The system has been in this state since 2007-05-10. I tried using aptitude to resolve the dependencies, but no luck. I waited a week or so trying to upgrade every other day or so, in hopes things would sort themselves out but it appears this isn't affecting many other people. For what it's worth the other packages that currently report dependency problems relating to this are: texlive-pdfetex texlive-latex-base latex-beamer texlive-latex-recommended prosper Presumably none of this is news to you. To close, I append the output of 'dpkg -l |grep tex' to give you an idea of the other packages installed ii console-common 0.7.69 Basic infrastructure for text console configuration ii gettext-base 0.16.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities for the base system ii groff 1.18.1.1-12 GNU troff text-formatting system ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-12 GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components) iU latex-beamer 3.07-1 LaTeX class to produce presentations ii latex-xcolor 2.09-1 Easy driver-independent TeX class for color ii latex-xft-fonts 0.1-6 Xft-compatible versions of some LaTeX fonts ii latex2html 2002-2-1-20050114-5 LaTeX to HTML translator ii libalgorithm-diff-perl 1.19.01-2 a perl library for finding Longest Common Sequences in text ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.56-1 A collection of modules that parse HTML text documents ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 Using libc functions for internationalization in Perl ii liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl 0.62-2 Lexicon-handling backends for "Locale::Maketext" ii liblocale-maketext-simple-perl 0.16-1 Simple interface to Locale::Maketext::Lexicon ii libnewt0.52 0.52.2-10 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing with slang ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internationalized text ii libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-4 get display widths of characters on the terminal ii libtext-diff-perl 0.35-2 Perform diffs on files and record sets in perl ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.4-3 converts between character sets in Perl ii libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-5 internationalized substitute of Text::Wrap ii linuxdoc-tools-latex 0.9.21-0.5 LaTeX/PS/PDF output facility of LinuxDoc-Tools ii linuxdoc-tools-text 0.9.21-0.5 Text output facility of LinuxDoc-Tools ii mawk 1.3.3-11 a pattern scanning and text processing language ii mousepad 0.2.10-1 simple Xfce oriented text editor ii r-base-latex 2.4.1-2 GNU R LaTeX docs for statistical computing system functions rc tetex-base 3.0.dfsg.3-5 Basic TeX input files of teTeX rc tetex-bin 3.0-30 The teTeX programs rc tetex-extra 3.0.dfsg.3-5 Additional TeX input files of teTeX ii tex-common 1.7 Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian ii texinfo 4.8.dfsg.1-4 Documentation system for on-line information and printed output ii texlive-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Essential programs and files ii texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: Essential binaries ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component ii texlive-doc-base 2005.dfsg.2-1 TeX Live: Base documentation ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Recommended fonts ii texlive-generic-recommended 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Miscellaneous generic macros iU texlive-latex-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages iU texlive-latex-recommended 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages iF texlive-pdfetex 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: pdfTeX ii texlive-pstricks 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: PSTricks packages ii tofrodos 1.7.6-2 Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos Kind regards, Vince -- Package-specific info: If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries (latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures! If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem), you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that can be found at http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english) or http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german) ################################## minimal input file ################################## other files ###################################### List of ls-R files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 759 2007-05-19 16:01 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-04-27 18:12 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-05-09 20:05 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-05-09 20:05 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE ###################################### Config files lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-04-27 18:12 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3673 2007-05-19 16:00 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7032 2007-05-19 16:00 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg total 172 drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2006-10-25 19:36 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2004-04-17 13:25 bookmarks drwxr-sr-x 6 vjm vjm 4096 2006-10-25 16:35 calendar drwxr-xr-x 8 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 20:56 computing drwxr-xr-x 3 vjm vjm 4096 2007-04-29 21:37 cooking drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-03-31 12:24 cups drwxr-xr-x 4 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 20:57 debian drwx------ 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 21:02 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-16 20:26 dns drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-03-31 12:23 figures drwxr-xr-x 11 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-19 15:36 finance -rw-r--r-- 1 vjm vjm 5084 2006-09-19 19:15 getadsmtp.pl drwxr-xr-x 5 vjm vjm 4096 2007-04-29 21:14 house drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-04-25 12:39 images -rw-r--r-- 1 vjm vjm 3067 2007-05-14 06:49 log.20070514 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13257 2007-05-10 07:19 log.aptitude -rw-r--r-- 1 vjm vjm 18501 2007-05-10 07:18 log.tipa -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-05-19 15:58 log.tipa.remove drwxr-xr-x 3 vjm vjm 4096 2006-10-16 07:24 personal drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 20:58 planning drwxr-sr-x 6 vjm vjm 4096 2007-04-03 00:02 quotas drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-02 21:02 reading drwxr-x--- 3 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-13 19:34 scans drwxr-s--x 9 vjm vjm 4096 2006-10-10 22:17 tex -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.caI17868 -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.cFL17550 -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-19 09:41 texlive.fmtutil.CiU25776 -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.cXJ16240 -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-14 06:48 texlive.fmtutil.fuw20220 -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.JpZ13942 -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.Myo18203 -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.QaX18844 -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.wCS19162 -rw------- 1 root root 38 2007-05-10 07:19 texlive.fmtutil.Xbt18521 drwxr-xr-x 2 vjm vjm 4096 2007-03-11 10:18 Videos drwxr-xr-x 5 vjm vjm 4096 2007-05-07 21:18 wedding -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages texlive-pdfetex depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii texlive-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Essential programs and f ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component texlive-pdfetex recommends no packages. Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii debconf 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy ii ucf 3.001 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages texlive-pdfetex is related to: pn tetex-base <none> (no description available) pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available) pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: tex-common/check_texmf_wrong: tex-common/check_texmf_missing: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
