package texlive-binaries failed to install: *** glibc detected *** jtex: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000016e6181 ***

[Tibor Harcsa]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Upgrade is aborted and according to the error message my system could be in an unusable state.
See attached file for more information.

[Tibor Harcsa (silurust)]

After a restart of the computer, everything seems to be running smoothly. Kubuntu 10.04 LTS is installed.
I do not know why the error came up but it turned out to be not a very serious problem.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The relevant error is
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Setting up texlive-binaries (2009-5) ...

update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw to provide /usr/bin/xdvi.bin (xdvi.bin) in auto mode.

update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/bibtex.original to provide /usr/bin/bibtex (bibtex) in auto mode.

mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...

mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...

mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...

mktexlsr: Done.

Building format(s) --refresh.

 This may take some time... *** glibc detected *** jtex: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000016e6181 ***

======= Backtrace: =========

/lib/libc.so.6(+0x775b6)[0x7f166b8315b6]

/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x73)[0x7f166b837e53]

/usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.4(+0x8b7d)[0x7f166bdc7b7d]

/usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.4(kpse_fontmap_lookup+0xd9)[0x7f166bdc7df9]

/usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.4(kpse_find_file+0x305)[0x7f166bdc45b5]

jtex[0x439e38]

[...]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall]

fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in

/tmp/fmtutil.H4fgdJXB

Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing texlive-binaries (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

You tex installation is probably in a non working state.
Setting to triage.

[Tibor Harcsa (silurust)]

The solution was that I first had to remove all texlive packages and then select and installed them again. There could have been a dependency problem.

Now latex works properly again.

(before that I received the message:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
)

[Hilmar Preusse (hille42)]

This is a problem in jtex, no bug in TeX Live, see http://bugs.debian.org/565995. Please reassign it to the correct package.