Package: tetex-bin Version: 3.0-9 Followup-For: Bug #334613 I've seen the same problem, with the following extra note. Setting up tetex-bin was retried automatically, and that time succeeded. After that tetex-extra could be set up and it appears that the total installation was successful.
Upgrade log (partial) attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-16.0508-2 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.15 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-2 GCC support library ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libkpathsea4 3.0-9 path search library for teTeX (run ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libt1-5 5.1.0-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System protocol client li ii libxaw8 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Athena widget set library ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxmu6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System printing extension ii libxpm4 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X pixmap library ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii mime-support 3.35-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii perl 5.8.7-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.4-4 The GNU sed stream editor ii tetex-base 3.0-9 Basic library files of teTeX ii ucf 2.002 Update Configuration File: preserv ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-6 compression library - runtime Versions of packages tetex-bin recommends: pn libxml-parser-perl <none> (no description available) pn perl-tk <none> (no description available) pn psutils <none> (no description available) ii whiptail 0.51.6-31 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe -- debconf information: tetex-bin/updmap-failed: tetex-bin/hyphen: french[=patois], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung] tetex-bin/oldcfg: true tetex-bin/upd_map: true tetex-bin/cnf_name: tetex-bin/fmtutil: true tetex-bin/use_debconf: false tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
Setting up tetex-base (3.0-9) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/texsys.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/color.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/graphics.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/context/texexec.ini ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/context/cont-usr.tex ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/modes.mf ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ps ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/dvips/config.pdf ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texdoctk/texdoctk.dat ... Using obsolete pdftex.cfg to generate pdftexconfig.tex ... done. Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/latex/latex.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/cyrplain/cyrtex.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/cyrplain/cyrtxinf.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/cyrplain/cyramstx.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/etex/etex.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/platex/platex.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/context/cont-de.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/context/cont-en.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/context/cont-it.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/context/cont-nl.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/context/cont-ro.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/context/cont-uk.ini Removing obsolete, unchanged conffile /etc/texmf/context/cont-cz.ini Replacing config file /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf with new version Replacing config file /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config with new version Replacing config file /etc/texdoctk/texdocrc with new version Setting up libkpathsea4 (3.0-9) ... Setting up libxaw8 (6.8.2.dfsg.1-9) ... Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-9) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/xdvi.cfg ... Replacing config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf with new version Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ... Error: `etex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' failed ############################################################################### fmtutil-sys: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /var/lib/texmf/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `etex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' failed fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/tetex.postinst.XXXridSc Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-extra: tetex-extra depends on tetex-bin (>= 2.99); however: Package tetex-bin is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up adduser (3.72) ... Setting up libssl0.9.8 (0.9.8a-2) ... Setting up dictionaries-common (0.60.1) ... Updating OpenOffice.org's dictionary list... done. Setting up syslinux (3.11-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: tetex-bin tetex-extra E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-9) ... Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ... Running updmap-sys. This may take some time. ... done. Setting up tetex-extra (3.0-9) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/adrdir.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/adrplaner.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/adrsmall.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/geometry.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/htex4ht.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/jblong.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/jurabib.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/lettrine.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/latex/listings.cfg ... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-LOCAL... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. Creating missing formats. Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ... Running updmap-sys. This may take some time. ... done.