Bug#428259: Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2008-08-31 Thread Frank Küster
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fork bomb issue hit me on a dist-upgrade from etch to pre-lenny now. Would you please mark this as release-critical, because that's what it is? Could you please use reportbug, using its follow up function? As you might have noticed, this bug is

Bug#428259: Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2008-08-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
This fork bomb issue hit me on a dist-upgrade from etch to pre-lenny now. Would you please mark this as release-critical, because that's what it is? Thank you, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-10 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current opinion is to hack update-fontlang and hard-code xmltex and jadetex specifics into the the code, something like if 10texlive-latex-base.cnf is not present, do not include xmltex and jadetex snippets, finished. That is a quick and dirty

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-10 Thread Frank Küster
clone 427562 -1 reassign 427562 tex-common retitle -1 Possible forkbomb: mktexfmt loops because (pdf)TeX tries a base format severity -1 important Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! How do we continue with this bug. It seems to be the last really open RC bug of the texlive

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-10 Thread Frank Küster
# reassign 427562 tex-common notfound 427562 2007-11 found 427562 1.0.1 found 427562 1.7 thanks -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-10 Thread Francesc Altet
Hi, I have been bitten by this bug too. However, appart of jadetex, I've had to desinstall xmltex as well (the symptoms were similar). After this, I've been able to install texlive-base-bin. I've installed jadetex and xmltex afterwards without problems. I thought it would be worth mentioning

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-10 Thread Frank Küster
Francesc Altet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been bitten by this bug too. However, appart of jadetex, I've had to desinstall xmltex as well (the symptoms were similar). After this, I've been able to install texlive-base-bin. I've installed jadetex and xmltex afterwards without

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-09 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! How do we continue with this bug. It seems to be the last really open RC bug of the texlive packages (a side the etch-ignore and dummy bugs). On Die, 05 Jun 2007, Frank Küster wrote: An alternative would be to teach fmtutil about depending formats and let it skip a format if there is

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-05 Thread Norbert Preining
On Die, 05 Jun 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: But why is texlive-latex-base not configured AND jadetex.postinst is run??? THis is out of my understanding? Slowly unfolds the mystery. I assume the following: - we are upgrading from texlive 2005, it can only happen at this time - furthermore,

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-05 Thread Norbert Preining
On Die, 05 Jun 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: Slowly unfolds the mystery. One more addition. We never found this in our tests because we always tried upgrading from etch where jadetex was upgraded at the same time, so the .cnf file was not included in the texlive-base-bin.postinst fmtutil-sys

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So AFAIS the only solution to this is that we go back to the hack of NOT preloading the latex format, but including the stuff in the .ini files. Because jadetex depends on texlive-latex-base we can be sure that the respective files are already

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-05 Thread John Goerzen
The version of texlive being upgraded from was: 2007-06-04 16:10:11 upgrade texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.2-12 2007-11 The version of jadetex on the system is 3.13-8, and it is fully installed and configured. Just to make sure... Does anyone need anything else from me on this right now? -- John

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-05 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi John! On Die, 05 Jun 2007, John Goerzen wrote: Just to make sure... Does anyone need anything else from me on this right now? No, thanks a lot. Thanks to your cooperation we found the reason of the bug. We hope to get it fixed soon. For now, please purge jadetex, then do the upgrade,

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-05 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:01:31PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi John! On Die, 05 Jun 2007, John Goerzen wrote: Just to make sure... Does anyone need anything else from me on this right now? No, thanks a lot. Thanks to your cooperation we found the reason of the bug. We hope to

Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

2007-06-05 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Frank! (Taking John from the discussion) On Die, 05 Jun 2007, Frank Küster wrote: So AFAIS the only solution to this is that we go back to the hack of NOT preloading the latex format, but including the stuff in the .ini files. Because jadetex depends on texlive-latex-base we can be sure