12.04->14.04 upgrade fails, apparently on texlive packages

[Mark Eichin]

I tried to be clever and use ubuntu-bug to push the files, but *it* blows up on a partial failure...

The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
application. This might take a few minutes.
................ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_ubuntu-release-upgrader.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 769, in add_hooks_info
    symb['add_info'](self, ui)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_ubuntu-release-upgrader.py", line 28, in add_info
    root_command_output(["cat", clone_file], decode_utf8=False)
TypeError: root_command_output() got an unexpected keyword argument 'decode_utf8'
.

What looks to be the proximate cause:

Setting up texlive-base (2013.20140215-1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/libpaper.d/texlive-base ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base.cnf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults ...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to a4.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to a4.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to a4.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for pdftex to a4.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to letter.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to letter.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for pdftex to letter.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to letter.
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --refresh.
        This may take some time... done.

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/10texlive-base.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-cyrillic.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-czechslovak.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-french.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-greek.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-mongolian.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-polish.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-vietnamese.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-latex-base.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-latex-extra.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-math-extra.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-pictures.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/20tetex-extra.cfg

Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all.
        This may take some time... done.
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/config ...
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/texmf/xdvi/xdvi.cfg ...
Processing triggers for tex-common (4.04) ...
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.jFFFTRH9
Please include this file if you report a bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-45.68~precise1-generic 3.5.7.26
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-45-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Tue Jul 15 01:46:45 2014
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-07-15 (0 days ago)

[Mark Eichin (eichin-gmail)]

also says:

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

(That directory has a bunch of *.cfg files, plus 10tetex-base.cfg.obsolete dated Jun 1 2006, but that doesn't look like what the complaint is talking about...)

The /tmp/updmap.jFFFTRH9 mentioned in the failure:

updmap: resetting $HOME value (was /home/eichin) to root's actual home (/root).
updmap is using the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order):
  /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
  /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
updmap is using the following updmap.cfg file for writing changes:
  /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
dvips output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap"
pdftex output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap"
dvipdfmx output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap"

ERROR: The following map file(s) couldn't be found:
        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)

        Did you run mktexlsr?

        You can disable non-existent map entries using the option
          --syncwithtrees.

[Mark Eichin (eichin-gmail)]

Running "updmap --syncwithtrees" gives instead

  On Debian systems it is not recommendable to use --syncwithtrees.

(and some followup text that presumably makes no sense on ubuntu either.)

[Mark Eichin (eichin-gmail)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tex-common/+bug/1304972 looks like it might be the root cause (or possibly the duplicate at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tex-common/+bug/1304972 )

[Mark Eichin (eichin-gmail)]

Certainly taking the xxx.map references from comment #2 above out of the updmap.cfg was enough to get updmap-sys to work (when run implicitly) as suggested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tex-common/+bug/1236951/comments/11