Comment 15 for bug 26034

Dear Debian admins,

we need your help with that bug (I've already sent you a message
earlier, suspecting hardware problems).

Martin-Éric Racine <email address hidden> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-10.1
> Followup-For: Bug #334613

Note that the user mixed things up; it's #340279.

> Failure to install tetex-bin breaks the build-depend requirements of package "planner" on hppa.
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=planner&ver=0.13-3&arch=hppa&stamp=1132846224&file=log&as=raw
> Below is the stderr output:
>
> Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-10.1) ...
>
> Creating config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf with new version
> Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
> warning: Could not open char translation file `cp227.tcx'.
> warning: Could not open char translation file `cp227.tcx'.
> Error: `omega -ini -jobname=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' failed
> Error: `aleph -ini -jobname=lamed -progname=lamed *lambda.ini' failed
> warning: Could not open char translation file `cp227.tcx'.
> Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed

This shows that the same formats fail to build that failed with the
original bugreport. So maybe it is in fact not so indeterministic as I
first thought, and not a hardware failure but a real bug. However:

> fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
> /tmp/tetex.postinst.XXxxXcHb
> Please include this file if you report a bug.

we need these temporary files. Without that there is hardly a chance to
debug this. I just tried that the formats are built fine in paer's sid
chroot, so it doesn't seem to be simple "doesn't work on hppa" thing
(although I obviously couldn't do it as root, but only in my homedir).

Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer