tex-common fails to upgrade

[Jan Groenewald]

Setting up tex-common (4.03) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running mtxrun --generate. This may take some time...
mtxrun --generate failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/mtxrun.ykCZKyYY
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of luatex:
 luatex depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing luatex (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common
 luatex
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

saucy: apport-collect says "no additional information was collected"

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

This has now upgraded cleanly.
0 jan@kontiki:~$dpkg -l |grep tex-common
ii tex-common
4.03 all common infrastructure
for building and installing TeX
0 jan@kontiki:~$dpkg -l |grep luatex
ii luatex
0.76.0-2 amd64 next generation TeX
engine
ii texlive-luatex
2013.20130523-1 all TeX Live: LuaTeX
packages
0 jan@kontiki:~$

On 22 May 2013 12:51, Michael Bienia <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Package changed: ubuntu => tex-common (Ubuntu)
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[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

tex-commons also fails to upgrade cleanly 12.04 to 14.04
Multiple confirmations.