dist-upgrade failed due to updmap-sys failing

[N7DR]

Am attaching, as requested, the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade

[N7DR (doc-evans)]

This failure occurred exactly 50% into an upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10 on a 64-bit kubuntu system.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The first error is found here:

Processing triggers for tex-common ...^M
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.^M
Running mtxrun --generate. This may take some time... done.^M
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... ^M
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in^M
/tmp/updmap.1z0ATFq5^M
Please include this file if you report a bug.^M
^M
Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d^M
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension^M
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory^M
^M
dpkg: error processing tex-common (--remove):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1^M

After which packages that depend on tex-common fail.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.