Debian Bug report logs - #420559
texlive-base-bin: installation freezes system - uninstallable

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Andel <andel@ailab.ch>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: texlive-base-bin: installation freezes system - uninstallable

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:49:57 +0200

Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

The installation procedure starts mktexfmt which in turn starts etex and 
pdfetex instances. They are being started until memory is full and the 
system freezes. I have had over 800 instaces of etex. It also does'nt 
recover with time. The first time I have waited 14 hours.
My work around so far has been to 'killall mktexfmt {,pdf}etex' twice 
during installation, so it's left uninstalled.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
ii  ed                        0.2-20         The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                     2.5-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.5-5          Shared libraries for 
terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler0c2             0.4.5-5.1      PDF rendering library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   1:1.0.3-3      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxmu6                   1:1.0.3-1      X11 miscellaneous utility 
library
ii  libxpm4                   1:3.5.6-2      X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-2      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  mime-support              3.39-1         MIME files 'mime.types' & 
'mailcap
ii  perl                      5.8.8-7        Larry Wall's Practical 
Extraction
ii  texlive-common            2007-4         TeX Live: Base component
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends:
ii  perl-tk                      1:804.027-7 Perl module providing the 
Tk graph

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.13     Debian configuration 
management sy
ii  ucf                           2.0021     Update Configuration File: 
preserv

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-bin                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-extra                   <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
  tex-common/singleuser: false

Message #10 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>

To: David Andel <andel@ailab.ch>

Cc: 420559@bugs.debian.org, submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#420559: texlive-base-bin: installation freezes system - uninstallable

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:21:35 +0200

David Andel <andel@ailab.ch> wrote:

> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2007-5
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> The installation procedure starts mktexfmt which in turn starts etex
> and pdfetex instances. They are being started until memory is full and
> the system freezes. I have had over 800 instaces of etex. It also
> does'nt recover with time. The first time I have waited 14 hours.
> My work around so far has been to 'killall mktexfmt {,pdf}etex' twice
> during installation, so it's left uninstalled.

This might be related to recent similar failures with xmltex (or was it
jadetex?), as well as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315762

We'll investigate this later.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Message #20 received at 420559@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>

To: David Andel <andel@ailab.ch>

Cc: 420559@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#420559: texlive-base-bin: installation freezes system - uninstallable

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:27:08 +0200

(Please ignore this question if you've already been contacted by other
maintainers; I'm currently answering mails offline and have no idea when
I'll get a connection)

David Andel <andel@ailab.ch> wrote:

> The installation procedure starts mktexfmt which in turn starts etex
> and pdfetex instances. They are being started until memory is full and
> the system freezes. I have had over 800 instaces of etex. It also
> does'nt recover with time. The first time I have waited 14 hours.
> My work around so far has been to 'killall mktexfmt {,pdf}etex' twice
> during installation, so it's left uninstalled.

What are the arguments to these etex or pdfetex instances?  Does
"xmltex" show up in each of them?  If yes, this is a duplicate of
#419987. 

In order to be able to install texlive, please remove xmltex.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Message #25 received at 420559@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Andel <andel@ailab.ch>

To: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>

Cc: 420559@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#420559: texlive-base-bin: installation freezes system - uninstallable

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:46:12 +0200

Frank Küster wrote:
> 
> What are the arguments to these etex or pdfetex instances?  Does
> "xmltex" show up in each of them?  If yes, this is a duplicate of
> #419987. 
> 
> In order to be able to install texlive, please remove xmltex.

I didn't check the arguments, but after removing xmltex it installed
seamlessly.

Thanks

Message #30 received at 420559@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>

To: David Andel <andel@ailab.ch>

Cc: 420559@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#420559: texlive-base-bin: installation freezes system - uninstallable

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:48:45 +0200

reassign 420559 xmltex
forcemerge 419987 420559
thanks
David Andel <andel@ailab.ch> wrote:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>> 
>> What are the arguments to these etex or pdfetex instances?  Does
>> "xmltex" show up in each of them?  If yes, this is a duplicate of
>> #419987. 
>> 
>> In order to be able to install texlive, please remove xmltex.
>
> I didn't check the arguments, but after removing xmltex it installed
> seamlessly.
>
> Thanks
>
>

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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