Bug#537978: texlive-latex-base: update fails to build font
On 22.07.09 Rob Ristroph (rgristr...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi all, Package: texlive-latex-base Version: 2005.dfsg.3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I attempted to upgrade tetex-latex, and then after I had problems I looked online and tried livetex-latex, and both failed in the package configuration step with font compilation errors. Does adding oldstable-proposed-updates to your sources list, updating and re-installing solve your problem? Thanks, Hilmar -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537978: texlive-latex-base: update fails to build font
Hilmar == Hilmar Preusse hill...@web.de writes: Hilmar I do not believe this bug is the same as #534199, although boht involve fmutil-sys somehow. Hilmar So, why do you think not? You have the same error messages as Hilmar in this bug report and you probably have the unfixed version Hilmar on your hard disc. Hilmar Hilmar The bug is fixed in 2005.dfsg.2-13 of texlive-base-bin and Hilmar 2005.dfsg.3-2 of texlive-latex-extra. You have Hilmar texlive-latex-base 2005.dfsg.3-1, hence you should see the Hilmar bug. Please show the output of: dpkg -l texlive* Here is the output, which does indeed indicate the versions you mention: rgristroph-austin:~# dpkg -l texlive* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersion Description +++-===-===-== iU texlive 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live p ii texlive-base2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Essential programs and files ii texlive-base-bi 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: Essential binaries ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component ii texlive-context 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: ConText macro package ii texlive-doc-bas 2005.dfsg.2-1 TeX Live: Base documentation un texlive-doc-en none (no description available) un texlive-extra-u none (no description available) un texlive-fonts-e none (no description available) ii texlive-fonts-r 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Recommended fonts iF texlive-latex-b 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages un texlive-latex-e none (no description available) iU texlive-latex-r 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages un texlive-math-ex none (no description available) ii texlive-metapos 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: MetaPost (and Metafont) drawing pack ii texlive-pdfetex 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: pdfTeX rgristroph-austin:~# The reason why I presume this is not the same as #534199, is that in the /tmp/tetex.fmutil.* log file, the file doesn't stop at the file older than 5 years message. The message is a warning, and the output of pdfetex continues after it. However, after digging through some directories in a debian mirror, I got the texlive-base-bin_2005.dfsg.2-13_i386.deb file and I installed it with dpkg -i (the output above is from before that). The install worked, and latex seemed mostly working afterwards. (I was trying to install texlive in the first place, because an apt-get update had broken tetex, so that it had empty fonts or something and produced mostly white pages when the dvi was translated to pdf.) Thanks for everyone's help. I think this bug should be left open until the newer packages are available through a normal apt-get. --Rob P.S. Why do you think Donald Knuth decided to warn himself against processing files older than 5 years ? The old guy probably has many of those, right ? -- http://rgr.freeshell.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537978: texlive-latex-base: update fails to build font
On 25.07.09 Robert G. Ristroph (r...@sdf.lonestar.org) wrote: Hi, The reason why I presume this is not the same as #534199, is that in the /tmp/tetex.fmutil.* log file, the file doesn't stop at the file older than 5 years message. The message is a warning, and the output of pdfetex continues after it. Weird indeed. IIRC the problem consisted of two parts: 1. fmtutil failed if the file older than 5 years messages appeared 2. The format mllatex needs the scrollmode to generate the format successfully (this is #534199). As you had the version, which should have the fix for 1. you should only run in 2. . I'd expect that the generation of mllatex.fmt fails, but I can't find this message in your log. However, after digging through some directories in a debian mirror, I got the texlive-base-bin_2005.dfsg.2-13_i386.deb file and I installed it with dpkg -i (the output above is from before that). The install worked, and latex seemed mostly working afterwards. Fine. P.S. Why do you think Donald Knuth decided to warn himself against processing files older than 5 years? The old guy probably has many of those, right? This is a warning from LaTeX, which was never written/maintained by DEK. I guess the LaTeX team would like to prevent people from using old versions of LaTeX and running in old old (long fixed) bugs. Greets, H. -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537978: texlive-latex-base: update fails to build font
On 24.07.09 Robert G. Ristroph (r...@sdf.lonestar.org) wrote: Hi, I apologize for the lack of information in my bug report. I expected the reportbug program to go to a further step where it would prompt me to attach files, but instead it sent the email. I do not believe this bug is the same as #534199, although boht involve fmutil-sys somehow. So, why do you think not? You have the same error messages as in this bug report and you probably have the unfixed version on your hard disc. The bug is fixed in 2005.dfsg.2-13 of texlive-base-bin and 2005.dfsg.3-2 of texlive-latex-extra. You have texlive-latex-base 2005.dfsg.3-1, hence you should see the bug. Please show the output of: dpkg -l texlive* H. -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537978: texlive-latex-base: update fails to build font
Package: texlive-latex-base Version: 2005.dfsg.3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I attempted to upgrade tetex-latex, and then after I had problems I looked online and tried livetex-latex, and both failed in the package configuration step with font compilation errors. -- Package-specific info: If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries (latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures! If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem), you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that can be found at http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english) or http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german) ## minimal input file ## other files ## List of ls-R files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1007 Jul 22 00:43 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R -rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 79 Jul 22 00:40 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jul 2 02:30 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R - /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 22 00:38 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R - /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 22 00:38 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R - /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE ## Config files lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jul 2 02:30 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf - /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5474 Jul 22 00:43 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5039 Jul 22 00:43 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4481 Jul 22 00:43 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.20 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages texlive-latex-base depends on: ii texlive-common2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component ii texlive-pdfetex 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: pdfTeX texlive-latex-base recommends no packages. Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0]1.5.11etch2 Debian configuration management sy ii ucf 2.0020 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages texlive-latex-base is related to: pn tetex-basenone (no description available) pn tetex-bin none (no description available) pn tetex-extra none (no description available) -- debconf information: tex-common/check_texmf_wrong: tex-common/check_texmf_missing: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537978: texlive-latex-base: update fails to build font
On 22.07.09 Rob Ristroph (rgristr...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi, I attempted to upgrade tetex-latex, and then after I had problems I looked online and tried livetex-latex, and both failed in the package configuration step with font compilation errors. Both packages are unknown to me. As you didn't provide any log files an can only guess, hat happpened here. Are you eventually looking at #534199 and friends? The fix is in oldstable-proposed-updates, however I don't see a chance to download the fixed packages from anywhere. H. -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537978: texlive-latex-base: update fails to build font
severity 537978 normal tag 537978 + moreinfo thanks On Mi, 22 Jul 2009, Rob Ristroph wrote: I attempted to upgrade tetex-latex, and then after I had problems I looked online and tried livetex-latex, and both failed in the package configuration step with font compilation errors. On Mi, 22 Jul 2009, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Both packages are unknown to me. As you didn't provide any log files an can only guess, hat happpened here. Are you eventually looking at #534199 and friends? The fix is in oldstable-proposed-updates, however I don't see a chance to download the fixed packages from anywhere. Agreed, this is rubbish and useless bug report. Rob, please READ what was written in your email, or provide a terminal log of your problems, otherwise we need a crystal ball! Best wishes Norbert --- Dr. Norbert Preining prein...@logic.atVienna University of Technology Debian Developer prein...@debian.org Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 --- GLOADBY MARWOOD (n.) Someone who stops Jon Cleese on the street and demands that he does a funny walk. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
