Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! On Die, 14 Mär 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > Well, and knowing this, it's even simple to reproduce in a sid chroot: > > apt-get install texinfo tex-common tetex-bin Thanks Frank for analyzing this. The time difference to Japan gave you the essential hours to be faster than me ;-) > So, as

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-13 Thread Frank Küster
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:46:32AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> - set and export KPATHSEA_DEBUG=126 and try again, there'll be a lot of >> output on stderr which we need to analyse > > See attachment. Thanks. kdebug:start search(file=texmf.cnf, must_

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-13 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Bastian, after an analysis of what we know, there are some requests for you at the end. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So kpsewhich --version succeeds, but kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR > does not. This would be really strange. Yes, sorry, I didn't notice this. So we kno

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Frank, hi all! On Mon, 13 Mär 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > This seems to be a problem that tetex is not already configured. > > Although I thought that this should NOT happen, namely that only with > > tex-common installed a call to kpsewhich should succeed. But it seems > > that it doesn't. D

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-13 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems to be a problem that tetex is not already configured. > Although I thought that this should NOT happen, namely that only with > tex-common installed a call to kpsewhich should succeed. But it seems > that it doesn't. Do you have an idea why?

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:22:40PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > Do you have tetex installed, and if yes, which version? I assume the > latest in unstable. | Setting up tetex-base (3.0-15) ... | done | Creating config file /etc/texdoctk/texdocrc with new version [...] | Setting up texinfo (4.8

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-12 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear teTeX maintainers! I have a strange problem with texinfo and autobuilders: On Son, 12 Mär 2006, Bastian Blank wrote: > Package: texinfo > Version: 4.8-6 > Severity: serious > > > Automatic build of gmsh_1.64.0-1 on debian01 by sbuild/s390 85 > [...] > > Setting up texinfo (4.8-6) ... > > Ru

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:53:58PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > Huuu, could you please run > sh -ex /var/lib/dpkg/info/texinfo.postinst configure > and send me the output. This can only happen in the kpsewhich call or in > the install-info call, and I need to know where. As it only fails

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-12 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Bastian, On Son, 12 Mär 2006, Bastian Blank wrote: > As it only fails in the autobuilder, I can't provide a sh output, but strace > shows the problem: > > | execve("/usr/bin/kpsewhich", ["kpsewhich", "-var-value", "TEXMFSYSVAR"], > [/* 26 vars */]) = 0 > | [...] > | access("/usr/share/texmf

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-12 Thread Norbert Preining
On Son, 12 Mär 2006, Bastian Blank wrote: > Package: texinfo > Version: 4.8-6 > Severity: serious > > > Automatic build of gmsh_1.64.0-1 on debian01 by sbuild/s390 85 > [...] > > Setting up texinfo (4.8-6) ... > > Running mktexlsr. This may take some time. ... done. > > dpkg: error processing texi

Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install

2006-03-12 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: texinfo Version: 4.8-6 Severity: serious > Automatic build of gmsh_1.64.0-1 on debian01 by sbuild/s390 85 [...] > Setting up texinfo (4.8-6) ... > Running mktexlsr. This may take some time. ... done. > dpkg: error processing texinfo (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script re