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texlive-base package

  1. Bug #228334
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 228334

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Christian Kirbach (christian-kirbach-e) wrote : Re: package texlive-base 2007-13 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I can confirm this error when reinstalling texlive-base

Richte texlive-base ein (2007-13) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all.
 This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.hVU11866
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Attaching that output file. In that output file following seems to be the error

###############################################################################
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /var/lib/texmf/web2c
for details.
###############################################################################

contents of that directory

$ ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/
insgesamt 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3590 2008-08-25 18:02 fmtutil.cnf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-25 18:02 metafont
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-25 18:02 pdftex
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-25 18:02 tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4587 2008-08-25 18:02 updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4141 2008-04-07 01:00 updmap.log

updmap.log has no recent log entries.