I can confirm this error when reinstalling texlive-base Richte texlive-base ein (2007-13) ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.hVU11866 Please include this file if you report a bug.
Attaching that output file. In that output file following seems to be the error ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /var/lib/texmf/web2c for details. ############################################################################### contents of that directory $ ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ insgesamt 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3590 2008-08-25 18:02 fmtutil.cnf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-25 18:02 metafont drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-25 18:02 pdftex drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-25 18:02 tex -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4587 2008-08-25 18:02 updmap.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4141 2008-04-07 01:00 updmap.log updmap.log has no recent log entries. ** Attachment added: "fmtutil-sys output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17063276/fmtutil.hVU11866 -- package texlive-base 2007-13 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs