Comment 17 for bug 26034

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:38:34 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>,
        =?iso-8859-1?q?Martin-=C9ric_Racine?=
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Build problems on sarti (was: Bug#334613: failed install prevents
 building of another package that has tetex-bin as build-depends)

Dear Debian admins,=20

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

Martin-=C9ric 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 pack=
age "planner" on hppa.=20
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=3Dplanner&ver=3D0.13-3&arch=3Dhpp=
a&stamp=3D1132846224&file=3Dlog&as=3Draw
> 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=3Dlambda -progname=3Dlambda lambda.ini' fail=
ed
> Error: `aleph -ini -jobname=3Dlamed -progname=3Dlamed *lambda.ini' failed
> warning: Could not open char translation file `cp227.tcx'.
> Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=3Damstex -progname=3Damstex -translate-fil=
e=3Dcp227.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
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer