sudo fmtutil-sys -a fails

[Max Hoffmann]

Binary package hint: tex-common

Upgrade to lucid, in the process tex-comon with saying that fmtutil-sys -a failed
Running it manually ended with

  181 for language 0
0 words of pdfTeX memory
0 indirect objects
No pages of output.
Transcript written on pdflatex.log.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: running `mpost -ini -jobname=mfplain -progname=mfplain mfplain.ini' ...
Memory size overflow!
Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=mfplain -progname=mfplain mfplain.ini' failed
mv: cannot stat `mfplain.log': No such file or directory
fmtutil: running `mpost -ini -jobname=mpost -progname=mpost mpost.mp' ...
Memory size overflow!
Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=mpost -progname=mpost mpost.mp' failed
mv: cannot stat `mpost.log': No such file or directory

###############################################################################
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /var/lib/texmf/web2c
for details.
###############################################################################

I would have expected this to go smoothly

Thanks for looking at this.

Max

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: tex-common 2.06
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 30 18:42:28 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tex-common