package tex-common 4.04 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[David Baucum]

This failed while updating from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: tex-common 4.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 22 00:20:09 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:tex-common:4.04:ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-29 (723 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: tex-common
Title: package tex-common 4.04 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (0 days ago)

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

Setting up tex-common (4.04) ...
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!
Unknown AddHypen directive USEFILE in line: ==USEFILE /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.us /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/
language.us.def==!
Unknown AddHypen directive USEFILE in line: ==USEFILE /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.us /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/
language.us.def==!
Unknown AddHypen directive USEFILE in line: ==USEFILE /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.us /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/
language.us.def==!
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.K5mR0Nsi
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common

Error in function:

A fatal error occurred

Please report this as a bug and include the files
/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in
your report. The upgrade has aborted.
Your original sources.list was saved in
/etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.

SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

==========================================================================
0 root@waseem-desktop:/tmp#more updmap.K5mR0Nsi
warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c:/usr/local/share/tex
mf/web2c.
warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c:/usr/local/share/tex
mf/web2c.
/usr/bin/updmap: 1096: .: Can't open /usr/share/tex-common/debianize-updmap
===================================================================================
0 root@waseem-desk...

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

On precise, pre-upgrade, this file belonged to texlive-binaries, not tex-common:
0 root@muizenberg:/usr/bin#dpkg -S /usr/bin/updmap
texlive-binaries: /usr/bin/updmap
0 root@muizenberg:/usr/bin#dpkg -S /usr/bin/updmap-sys
texlive-binaries: /usr/bin/updmap-sys
0 root@muizenberg:/usr/bin#

On a trusty, post upgrade, this file belongs to texlive-base, not tex-common:
0 jan@hilaire-desktop:~$dpkg -S /usr/bin/updmap
texlive-base: /usr/bin/updmap

Possibly the file is missing during the upgrade as texlive-binaries has just been removed in the upgrade.

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

From tex-common postinst:

This looks OK
            if which updmap-sys >/dev/null; then
                    # we also have to check that texlive-base is installed
                    # and configured, otherwise we cannot be sure that
                    # all necessary basic files are present
                    #
                    # dpkg-query has two defects wrt not existing packages
                    # - it is noisy to stderr
                    # - it returns 1
                    # so shut both errors up
                    stat=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Status}' texlive-base 2>/dev/null || true)
                    case "$stat" in
                        "install ok installed")
                            do_it=1
                            ;;
                        *)
                            do_it=0
                            ;;
                    esac
                    if [ "$do_it" = 0 ] ; then
                        echo "texlive-base is not ready, delaying updmap-sys call" >&2
                    else
but is maybe failing??? Perhaps the OLD texlive-base without updmap-sys is still installed OK, but the OLD texlive-binaries containing updmap-sys is already removed??? Though I would have though the earlier conditional "if which updmap-sys" would have exited already.

On a related note: This does not look OK, is it checking for texlive-base or for context?? Does this stanza perhaps also trigger updmap?

run_mtxrun_if_possible()
{
    # code from postinst-tex
    if dhit_libkpathsea_configured; then
        if which mtxrun >/dev/null; then
            # we also have to check that texlive-base is installed
            # and configured, otherwise we cannot be sure that
            # all necessary basic files are present
            #
            # dpkg-query has two defects wrt not existing packages
            # - it is noisy to stderr
            # - it returns 1
            # so shut both errors up
            stat=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Status}' context 2>/dev/null || true)
            case "$stat" in
                "install ok installed")
                    do_it=1
                    ;;
                *)
                    do_it=0
                    ;;
            esac
            if [ "$do_it" = 1 ] ; then
                tempfile=$(mktemp -p /tmp mtxrun.XXXXXXXX)

[Russell Jones (russell-jones-oxphys)]

This looks pretty similar to the problem I had. I did the following
apt-get remove libkpathsea5
vim /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
(removed lines referring to comicvn.map and mscorevn.map)
updmap-sys
dpkg --configure -a
(use dpkg --configure tex-common for less output if things go wrong)

It spits out
Warning: Please see /usr/share/doc/tex-common/NEWS.Debian.gz
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10lmodern.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-base.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-fonts-extra.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-fonts-recommended.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-games.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-african.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-arabic.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-cyrillic.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-czechslovak.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-french.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-greek.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-hebrew.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-indic.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-lithuanian.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-mongolian.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-polish.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-vietnamese.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-latex-base.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-latex-extra.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-math-extra.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-omega.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-pictures.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-science.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/20latex-fonts-thai-tlwg.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/20tex-gyre.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/50cm-super-minimal.cfg
Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/50cm-super.cfg

each time any package to do with tex is configured, but the install seems to be continuing OK. I guess those files can be removed once the install has finished (I think the newer, equivalent config files go somewhere else).

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

I just purge tex-common, then finish the do-release-upgrade using apt-get
dist-upgrade. Sometimes a few iterations to finish. This will show up on
ALL our institutional laptops though, I'd like to see a fix.

On 23 April 2014 20:38, Russell Jones <email address hidden>wrote:

> This looks pretty similar to the problem I had. I did the following
> apt-get remove libkpathsea5
> vim /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
> (removed lines referring to comicvn.map and mscorevn.map)
> updmap-sys
> dpkg --configure -a
> (use dpkg --configure tex-common for less output if things go wrong)
>
> It spits out
> Warning: Please see /usr/share/doc/tex-common/NEWS.Debian.gz
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10lmodern.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-base.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-fonts-extra.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-fonts-recommended.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-games.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-african.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-arabic.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-cyrillic.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-czechslovak.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-french.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-greek.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-hebrew.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-indic.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-lithuanian.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-mongolian.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-polish.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-lang-vietnamese.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-latex-base.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-latex-extra.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-math-extra.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-omega.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-pictures.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-science.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/20latex-fonts-thai-tlwg.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/20tex-gyre.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/50cm-super-minimal.cfg
> Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/50cm-super.cfg
>
> each time any package to do with tex is configured, but the install
> seems to be continuing OK. I guess those files can be removed once the
> install has finished (I think the newer, equivalent config files go
> somewhere else).
>
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[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1236951, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Russell Jones (russell-jones-oxphys)]

Absolutely, same here. I was just trying to help isolate the cause.