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[Jan Groenewald <jan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
<russell.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>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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> Title:
>   package tex-common 4.04 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage:
>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>   status 1
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Title:
  package tex-common 4.04 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage:
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
  status 1

Status in “tex-common” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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)

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