package tex-common 4.04 failed to install/upgrade

[HugoHirsch]

After having performed an update from 12.04 to 14.04 most tex-packages produced errors during upgrade and prevent configuration.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: tex-common 4.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 24 16:16:26 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:tex-common:4.04:
ErrorMessage:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-12-04 (1236 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: tex-common
Title: package tex-common 4.04 failed to install/upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-24 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Peter Schüller (schueller-p)]

I get errors as follows:

Setting up tex-common (4.04) ...
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
... many of these ...
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.FEnvuOfj
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                   No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                      No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
             No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                           No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already

I have attached the file from the failed updmap-sys

[Peter Schüller (schueller-p)]

Let's see if file uploading works now.

[Peter Schüller (schueller-p)]

If I run

sudo updmap-sys --syncwithtrees

as suggested in the error output, I get the following information and warning.

<many of the following three lines>
updmap: font rm-lmr9 is defined multiple times:
updmap: lm.map (from /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
updmap: lm-rm.map (from /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg) (used)
Missing map files found, disabling
 antp.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
 comicvn.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
 csother.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
 cstext.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
 fi4.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
 grverb.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
 mscorevn.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
 slantcm.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
 troff-updmap.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
 zpeu.map (in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
in /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg

On Debian systems it is not recommendable to use --syncwithtrees.
We recommend the following actions, according to in which updmap.cfg
the map is listed:
  /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
      -> please run (as root) update-updmap
  /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
  /usr/local/share/web2c/updmap.cfg
      -> edit the file and remove the line
  any other place (esp under your home directory)
      -> only used if you have user only fonts activated, otherwise
         this file should not be there
      -> edit it by hand
Do you really want to continue (y/N)? n

[Peter Schüller (schueller-p)]

I solved the problem for me by doing as root the following:

(Before you do this, make sure you have the two package files or similar versions of these package files in /var/cache/apt/archives !)

dpkg --ignore-depends=tex-common --purge tex-common
dpkg --ignore-depends=texlive-base --purge texlive-base
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/tex-common_4.04_all.deb
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base_2013.20140215-1_all.deb

Just purging and installing tex-common did not work. Texlive-base is somehow involved in this. It seems tex-common can only be installed if texlive-base is not yet there.

[Peter Schüller (schueller-p)]

The only strange thing left is: when I run

apt-get install -f

my system configures all texlive packages (e.g., languages and so on) and for each package gives the following warning:

Warning: Old configuration style found in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
Warning: For now these files have been included,
Warning: but expect inconsistencies.
Warning: These packages should be rebuild with tex-common.
Warning: Please see /usr/share/doc/tex-common/NEWS.Debian.gz
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10lmodern.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-fonts-extra.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-fonts-recommended.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-african.cfg