severity 872012 normal tags 872012 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks Hi Holger,
> in a clean sid chroot, I tried to install tex-common package, which fails, > because of fmtutil failure: Very unlikely that you only installed tex-common into a clean chroot, because there are many formats that need at least texlive-latex-base. Here is a log that shows a *real* installation into a clean chroot: root@bulldog:/root/# cowbuilder --login I: Copying COW directory I: forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585 I: forking: cp -al /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585 I: removed stale ilistfile /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585/.ilist I: Invoking pbuilder I: forking: pbuilder login --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585 --no-targz --internal-chrootexec 'chroot /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.6585 cow-shell' W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist I: Running in no-targz mode I: copying local configuration I: mounting /proc filesystem I: mounting /sys filesystem I: creating /{dev,run}/shm I: mounting /dev/pts filesystem I: redirecting /dev/ptmx to /dev/pts/ptmx I: mounting /dev/pts/3 over /dev/console I: policy-rc.d already exists I: Obtaining the cached apt archive contents I: entering the shell root@bulldog:/# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid InRelease [228 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main amd64 Packages.diff/Index [27.9 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main Translation-en.diff/Index [27.9 kB] Get:4 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/contrib amd64 Packages.diff/Index [27.8 kB] Get:5 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0216.43.pdiff [14.5 kB] Get:6 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [4358 B] Get:6 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [4358 B] Get:7 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main Translation-en 2017-08-13-0216.43.pdiff [3950 B] Get:8 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main Translation-en 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [408 B] Get:8 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/main Translation-en 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [408 B] Get:9 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/contrib amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [567 B] Get:9 http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/debian sid/contrib amd64 Packages 2017-08-13-0816.47.pdiff [567 B] Fetched 336 kB in 1s (278 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done root@bulldog:/# apt-get install tex-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: ucf Suggested packages: debhelper The following NEW packages will be installed: tex-common ucf 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/636 kB of archives. After this operation, 1047 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously unselected package ucf. (Reading database ... 14688 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../archives/ucf_3.0036_all.deb ... Moving old data out of the way Unpacking ucf (3.0036) ... Selecting previously unselected package tex-common. Preparing to unpack .../tex-common_6.07_all.deb ... Unpacking tex-common (6.07) ... Setting up ucf (3.0036) ... Setting up tex-common (6.07) ... update-language: texlive-base not installed and configured, doing nothing! root@bulldog:/# Don't know what to say ... Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13