John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: texlive-base-bin > Version: 2007-11 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks unrelated software > > I recently tried upgrading (I track sid). > > Upon upgrading texlive-base-bin, the system ate all swap and eventually > crashed. > > I subsequently attempted to remove texlive packages with dpkg > --force-depends --purge, and reinstall with apt-get -f install. > > However, the same behavior reoccured.
That's great, simply great. I've encountered that myself once, and others have reported it, but nobody was ever able to reproduce it. > 629 pts/4 S+ 0:00 pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex > &latex Okay, in case you want to get your system working, simply remove jadetex. In case you want to help us debugging (please!), do the following: - Does the command "fmtutil-sys --byfmt jadetex" also trigger the behavior? - If not, does "fmtutil-sys --all" trigger it? One of these should really do it. Please save the following script and make it executable
#!/bin/sh # fmtutil-sys: Thomas Esser, public domain. # wrapper script for fmtutil with TEXMFVAR and TEXMFCONFIG set to # TEXMFSYSVAR / TEXMFSYSCONFIG test -f /bin/ksh && test -z "$RUNNING_KSH" \ && { UNAMES=`uname -s`; test "x$UNAMES" = xULTRIX; } 2>/dev/null \ && { RUNNING_KSH=true; export RUNNING_KSH; exec /bin/ksh $0 ${1+"$@"}; } unset RUNNING_KSH test -f /bin/bsh && test -z "$RUNNING_BSH" \ && { UNAMES=`uname -s`; test "x$UNAMES" = xAIX; } 2>/dev/null \ && { RUNNING_BSH=true; export RUNNING_BSH; exec /bin/bsh $0 ${1+"$@"}; } unset RUNNING_BSH # hack around a bug in zsh: test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && alias -g '${1+"$@"}'='"$@"' export PATH v=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR` c=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSCONFIG` TEXMFVAR="$v" TEXMFCONFIG="$c" export TEXMFVAR TEXMFCONFIG exec sh -x fmtutil ${1+"$@"}
and run it (with the option you needed above to reproduce the problem), capturing stdout and stderr in a file. Unless this is a Heisenbug, the problem should show up in the log file. TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)