Comment 25 for bug 7250

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:34:39AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
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> <email address hidden> writes:
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> > This is a followup for your report:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/262395
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> > The report end up with :
> >> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfjadetex.efmt installed.
> >> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.efmt installed.
> >> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem installed.
> >> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem installed.
> >> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mf.base installed.
> >> ERROR: XMLTeX memory dump (xmltex.efmt) cannot be found
> >> ERROR: PDFXMLTeX memory dump (pdfxmltex.efmt) cannot be found
> >> *** ERROR: can't make xmltex fmt files, bailing
> >> *** see /tmp/xmltex-postinst.qiqJtW for details
> >> dpkg: error processing xmltex (--configure):
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> > the full error log is in the generated file . Here
> > "/tmp/xmltex-postinst.qiqJtW". Could you post this file or if
> > deleted rerun the upgrade process and send the new one .
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> Sorry, but I'm afraid that /tmp is tmpfs, and it was lost after
> shutting down. It succeeded later, and I've tried downgrading to -8
> and upgrading again, and it now works fine.
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> So there's still a fault here which can cause errors on upgrades, but
> I'm not sure what the cause is, or if it will affect woody upgrades.
> I'll try purging all of tetex and trying again.

No luck. It reinstalled fine.

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Roger Leigh
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