Hi Daniel, maybe I was a little fast in closing this bug. Since you omitted the version information, I assumed you were on sid or testing, but you are using the version in etch, and in etch the trie_size is indeed 27000.
However, in a clean chroot it's possible to install all texlive packages, so there must be something amiss on your system. > The value in tex-common is 400000, 270000 is not enough. If you increase the value (in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf) and run update-texmf, does the problem persist? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)