Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: > `pdfetex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx > *latex.ini' possibly failed. > `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx > *pdflatex.ini' possibly failed. > > fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in: > /tmp/tetex.format_creation.VSSx2256/fmtutil-sys.log > Please include this file if you report a bug. > dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > tetex-bin > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > This was seen on an etch system, an etch chroot and a sid chroot.
Oh, that is surprising. Clean chroots?. Sounds like it's not the usual "you have some buggy configuration lying around". > -------------------- fmtutil-sys.log ---------------------- [...] > fmtutil: running `pdfetex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex > -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' ... [...] > Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser. > > catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters, > > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > ! You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file > ! That is more than five years old. > ! > ! If you enter <return> to scroll past this message then the format > ! will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files > ! before continuing to build LaTeX. > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!. > l.540 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!} > > LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> > hacks, control, par, spacing, files, font encodings, lengths, Hm. What's the output of "date"? On my system, 2003 is not more than 5 years old... Except for this message, I cannot find any other error in the log. Is there a file /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

