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and subject line Re: Bug#1008956: tex-common: Something in package "tex-common"
causes dpkg to exit with exit code -1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1008956,
regarding tex-common: Something in package "tex-common" causes dpkg to exit
with exit code -1
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Package: tex-common
Version: 6.16
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
(This is my first foray into bug reporting on a Linux distro, so if I make any
mistakes, let me know!)
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
* What was the outcome of this action?
* What outcome did you expect instead?
*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
Preface regarding my system:
-----------------------------
My system is a Lenovo ThinkPad W530, Type 2447; but with 32 GB RAM. This is why
I have set APT to hold any packages matching the following critieria:
1) "*nvidia*"
2) "*cuda*"
I have the "nvidia-tesla-418-driver" package(s) installed, and I don't want
anything else breaking it, so I have this held. I'm unsure if this is a cause
of the error or not.
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Prompt #1: What led up to the situation?
-----------------------------------------
I went to install Blender and all the suggested / recommended packages so I
could have the maximum funcionality out of the program. I used "apt install
blender --install-suggests --install-recommends" (That last switch may be
incorrect, if so, substibute the correct one there, I can't recall right now.)
=========================================
Prompt #2 / #3: What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective) / What was the outcome of this action?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I noticed the error that dpkg reported: exit code -1, and the package
"tex-common". I saw that it made a error report with the name "fmtutil.<random
chars>", but I thought that perhaps it was a fluke brought on by the mammoth
number of packages I had it installing.
I ran "dpkg --configure tex-common" to see, and the same error happened. I
looked in the error file it generated, and it was really long, and quite
frankly, I couldn't follow it.
(I don't think it'll let me attach it to this report; this is the second time
I've typed this due to a ironic error in reportbug: it failed to write the
header in the bug report, and the file failed to attach there.)
Oddly, neither APT or dpkg report any broken deps with this erroring package;
they just try to reconfigure it every time any action is performed with them,
and Blender seems to be working fine? However, I doubt it's all functioning,
since parts of the package are not configured.
===============================================================================================================================
Prompt #4: What outcome did you expect instead?
------------------------------------------------
The package to not be stuck in a limbo of installed but not configured.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii dpkg 1.20.9
ii ucf 3.0043
tex-common recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
pn debhelper <none>
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.28+b1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.14
ii texlive-binaries 2020.20200327.54578-7
ii ucf 3.0043
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1
Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii lmodern 2.004.5-6.1
Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2
ii okular [postscript-viewer] 4:20.12.3-2
pn perl-tk <none>
pn xpdf | pdf-viewer <none>
pn xzdec <none>
Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on:
ii dpkg 1.20.9
ii install-info 6.7.0.dfsg.2-6
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.2
ii libfreetype6 2.10.4+dfsg-1
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libgraphite2-3 1.3.14-1
ii libharfbuzz0b 2.7.4-1
ii libicu67 67.1-7
ii libkpathsea6 2020.20200327.54578-7
ii libmpfr6 4.1.0-3
ii libpaper1 1.1.28+b1
ii libpixman-1-0 0.40.0-1
ii libpng16-16 1.6.37-3
ii libptexenc1 2020.20200327.54578-7
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii libsynctex2 2020.20200327.54578-7
ii libteckit0 2.5.10+ds1-3
ii libtexlua53 2020.20200327.54578-7
ii libtexluajit2 2020.20200327.54578-7
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1.1
ii libxi6 2:1.7.10-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2+b3
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1
ii libxt6 1:1.2.0-1
ii libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-3.3+deb11u1
ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u2
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u1
Versions of packages texlive-binaries recommends:
ii dvisvgm 2.11.1-1
ii texlive-base 2020.20210202-3
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Am 06.04.2022 um 23:43 teilte amo...@ashleighhost.net mit:
Oh, okay, that makes sense then. Go ahead and close it, if it happens
again, I'll let you know.
Doing so.
Hilmar
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