I'm also experiencing this bug, FWIW. This is on a Deban GNU/Linux 'testing' distro system, dist-upgraded daily:
Linux kwork 4.9.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.2-2 (2017-01-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux At the end of this mail, I'll include the full output of 'apt-get dist-upgrade', but first here's the file '/tmp/updmap.75oY5hgf', which was given when 'updmap-sys' failed: updmap will read the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order): /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg updmap may write changes to the following updmap.cfg file: /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg dvips output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap" pdftex output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap" dvipdfmx output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap" updmap [ERROR]: The following map file(s) couldn't be found: updmap [ERROR]: otf-@jaEmbed@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: otf-ko-@koEmbed@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: otf-sc-@scEmbed@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: otf-tc-@tcEmbed@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: otf-up-@jaEmbed@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: ptex-@jaEmbed@@jaVariant@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: uptex-@jaEmbed@@jaVariant@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: uptex-ko-@koEmbed@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: uptex-sc-@scEmbed@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: uptex-tc-@tcEmbed@.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) updmap [ERROR]: Did you run mktexlsr? You can disable non-existent map entries using the option --syncwithtrees. Here's the output of 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade': # date Fri Feb 3 10:30:30 CST 2017 # apt-get update Hit:1 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian testing InRelease Hit:2 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian testing-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease Reading package lists... Done # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: libboost-date-time-dev libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-system-dev 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. 17 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up tex-common (6.06) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running mtxrun --generate. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/updmap.75oY5hgf Please include this file if you report a bug. Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension .dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-arabic: texlive-lang-arabic depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-arabic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-spanish: texlive-lang-spanish depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-spanish (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-european: texlive-lang-european depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-european (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-italian: texlive-lang-italian depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-italian (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-japanese: texlive-lang-japanese depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-japanese (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-english: texlive-lang-english depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-english (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-german: texlive-lang-german depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-german (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-czechslovak: texlive-lang-czechslovak depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-czechslovak (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-polish: texlive-lang-polish depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-polish (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-other: texlive-lang-other depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-other (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-cyrillic: texlive-lang-cyrillic depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-cyrillic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-chinese: texlive-lang-chinese depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-chinese (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-portuguese: texlive-lang-portuguese depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-portuguese (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-french: texlive-lang-french depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-french (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-african: texlive-lang-african depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-african (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-korean: texlive-lang-korean depends on tex-common (>= 6); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-korean (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: tex-common texlive-lang-arabic texlive-lang-spanish texlive-lang-european texlive-lang-italian texlive-lang-japanese texlive-lang-english texlive-lang-german texlive-lang-czechslovak texlive-lang-polish texlive-lang-other texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-chinese texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-african texlive-lang-korean E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # If there's any other useful information I can provide, please let me know. -Karl