Upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10 hangs due to tex-common

[Nicolas Riesco]

The upgrade process stalls after the following message on the terminal:

    Unpacking replacement ubuntu-artwork

Previously, it had complained about missing texlive-common.

I've also noticed the software-manager is running and showing some updates. After clicking on "Install Now", the software-manager also hangs.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Fri Oct 25 07:22:56 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-21 (461 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-25 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz: Error: command ['pkexec', 'cat', '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'] failed with exit code 127: pkexec must be setuid root
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From Apttermlog.txt we see:

Processing triggers for tex-common ...^M
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.^M
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... ^M
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in^M
/tmp/updmap.HCHp4AWP^M
Please include this file if you report a bug.^M
^M
Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d^M
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension^M
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory^M
^M
dpkg: error processing tex-common (--remove):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1^M
Errors were encountered while processing:^M
 tex-common^M

[Nicolas Riesco (nicolas-riesco)]

I completed the upgrade by running:
    $ sudo dpkg --configure -a

I have also rebooted the machine and thus I don't have access to /tmp/updmap.HCHp4AWP any longer.

I have checked the folder /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ and now it only contains one file:
    $ ls /etc/texmf/updmap.d/
    10lmodern.cfg

[Nick Tasios (nicktasios)]

I got the same problem. Here is my updmap file.