Bug#872223: tex-common: fails to configure, fmtutils reports errors about missing files
On 15.08.17 10:30, ydir...@free.fr wrote: > I'll spare you the full logs, the end seems to make things quite clear: > > fmtutil [INFO]: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dviluatex.fmt installed. > fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile xmltex.ini for xmltex/pdftex not found. > fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile jadetex.ini for jadetex/pdftex not found. > fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile pdfjadetex.ini for pdfjadetex/pdftex not found. > fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile pdfxmltex.ini for pdfxmltex/pdftex not found. > fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 3 > fmtutil [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 15 > fmtutil [INFO]: Failed to build: 4 (pdftex/xmltex pdftex/jadetex > pdftex/pdfjadetex pdftex/pdfxmltex) > fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 22 > fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 4 > > > This box is mostly-stretch with a number of packages from buster, so it may > just be some > dependency missing after the move of those packages into texlive-htmlxml. > > I have texlive-htmlxml 2017.20170808-1 from stretch here. If it is > what tex-common dislikes, it probably needs a Conflicts declaration? > Is this bug still relevant or can we close it? Last statement from Norbert was: I will not care for release mixtures nor downgrades. As long as this cannot be reproduced either in unstable or testing, without a mixture of releases, or during an proper dist-upgrade, I will close this bug in due time. Hilmar -- sigfault #206401 http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#872223: tex-common: fails to configure, fmtutils reports errors about missing files
severity 872223 minor thanks > In this case there are some Depends/Breaks/Conflicts fields missing > somewhere at least to handle downgrades. But I've not checked if also > to handle upgrades? I will not care for release mixtures nor downgrades. As long as this cannot be reproduced either in unstable or testing, without a mixture of releases, or during an proper dist-upgrade, I will close this bug in due time. Thanks 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
Bug#872223: tex-common: fails to configure, fmtutils reports errors about missing files
Control: reassign -1 texlive-htmlxml Control: severity -1 serious Hi! On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 11:09:47 +0200, ydir...@free.fr wrote: > Well, probably not a missing Conflicts, as downgrading tex-common to > the stretch version does not fix the problem. Really a problem with > missing files that should not be missing. > > In fact, despite having the package installed, there is no such .ini files > on my system. packages.d.o shows that texlive-htmlxml from stretch should > have them, but for some reason they do not appear on my system: I've not tried to reproduce this, but from the details that you give later on it seems obvious this is a problem with the package (and the downgrade procedure). The files within texlive-htmlxml appear to have been moved in later version into several other package. Those other packages contain proper Replaces fields. I'm assuming you have just downgraded the packages in the "wrong" (or unexpected) order. So that you downgraded texlive-htmlxml first, dpkg honored the Replaces fields and didn't transfer ownership from the new packages to the downgraded one. Then you downgraded the other packages now owning those files, but not on the old versions, and those files just disappeared. In this case there are some Depends/Breaks/Conflicts fields missing somewhere at least to handle downgrades. But I've not checked if also to handle upgrades? > What's common to those packages are that they were downgraded from buster > back to stretch (they had been mistakingly upgraded): > > texlive-htmlxml:amd64 (2017.20170629-1, 2016.20170123-5) > texlive-generic-recommended:amd64 (2017.20170629-1, 2016.20170123-5) Thanks, Guillem
Bug#872223: tex-common: fails to configure, fmtutils reports errors about missing files
reassign 872223 dpkg
severity 872223 grave
thanks
Well, probably not a missing Conflicts, as downgrading tex-common to the stretch
version does not fix the problem. Really a problem with missing files that
should
not be missing.
In fact, despite having the package installed, there is no such .ini files on
my system. packages.d.o shows that texlive-htmlxml from stretch should have
them, but for some reason they do not appear on my system:
root@home:~# apt-cache policy texlive-htmlxml
texlive-htmlxml:
Installed: 2016.20170123-5
Candidate: 2016.20170123-5
Version table:
2017.20170808-1 900
500 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
500 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main i386 Packages
900 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
900 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
*** 2016.20170123-5 990
990 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
990 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@home:~# grep jadetex /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-htmlxml.list
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/otherformats/jadetex
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/otherformats/jadetex/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/jadetex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/jadetex/base
root@home:~# cp /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-htmlxml.list /tmp
root@home:~# aptitude reinstall texlive-htmlxml
... and then the configuration fails with another missing file:
! LaTeX Error: File `ulem.sty' not found.
Type X to quit or to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
Enter file name:
! Emergency stop.
l.27 \RequirePackage
{fancyhdr}^^M
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on pdfjadetex.log.
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex
*jadetex.ini
2017-08-01 11:00:49 status half-configured tex-common:all 6.07
2017-08-01 11:00:50 status installed tex-common:all 6.07
...
2017-08-01 23:32:55 configure texlive-generic-recommended:all 2016.20170123-5
2017-08-01 23:32:55 status unpacked texlive-generic-recommended:all
2016.20170123-5
2017-08-01 23:32:55 status half-configured texlive-generic-recommended:all
2016.20170123-5
2017-08-01 23:32:55 status installed texlive-generic-recommended:all
2016.20170123-5
...
2017-08-01 23:32:58 configure texlive-htmlxml:all 2016.20170123-5
2017-08-01 23:32:58 status unpacked texlive-htmlxml:all 2016.20170123-5
2017-08-01 23:32:58 status half-configured texlive-htmlxml:all 2016.20170123-5
2017-08-01 23:32:58 status installed texlive-htmlxml:all 2016.20170123-5
...
2017-08-01 23:35:15 trigproc tex-common:all 6.07
2017-08-01 23:35:15 status half-configured tex-common:all 6.07
2017-08-01 23:35:49 startup packages configure
2017-08-01 23:35:49 configure tex-common:all 6.07
2017-08-01 23:35:49 status half-configured tex-common:all 6.07
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2020 Aug 1 10:42
/var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-generic-recommended.list
Older logs show:
2017-07-14 22:33:44 configure texlive-generic-recommended:all 2017.20170629-1
2017-07-14 22:33:44 status unpacked texlive-generic-recommended:all
2017.20170629-1
2017-07-14 22:33:44 status half-configured texlive-generic-recommended:all
2017.20170629-1
2017-07-14 22:33:44 status installed texlive-generic-recommended:all
2017.20170629-1
...
2017-07-14 23:26:00 configure texlive-htmlxml:all 2017.20170629-1
2017-07-14 23:26:00 status unpacked texlive-htmlxml:all 2017.20170629-1
2017-07-14 23:26:00 status half-configured texlive-htmlxml:all 2017.20170629-1
2017-07-14 23:26:00 status installed texlive-htmlxml:all 2017.20170629-1
...
2017-07-14 23:26:41 trigproc tex-common:all 6.07
2017-07-14 23:26:41 status half-configured tex-common:all 6.07
2017-07-14 23:27:04 status installed tex-common:all 6.07
I know that we do not really support package downgrading, but still, that stuff
really looks like a bad dpkg bug, right ?
A shame we do not git-version all .list files to track down when something goes
wrong like that...
Bug#872223: tex-common: fails to configure, fmtutils reports errors about missing files
Package: tex-common Version: 6.07 I'll spare you the full logs, the end seems to make things quite clear: fmtutil [INFO]: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dviluatex.fmt installed. fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile xmltex.ini for xmltex/pdftex not found. fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile jadetex.ini for jadetex/pdftex not found. fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile pdfjadetex.ini for pdfjadetex/pdftex not found. fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile pdfxmltex.ini for pdfxmltex/pdftex not found. fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 3 fmtutil [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 15 fmtutil [INFO]: Failed to build: 4 (pdftex/xmltex pdftex/jadetex pdftex/pdfjadetex pdftex/pdfxmltex) fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 22 fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 4 This box is mostly-stretch with a number of packages from buster, so it may just be some dependency missing after the move of those packages into texlive-htmlxml. I have texlive-htmlxml 2017.20170808-1 from stretch here. If it is what tex-common dislikes, it probably needs a Conflicts declaration ?
