Bug#986042: texlive-base: Post-installation script fails with exit status 1

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, Shayan Doust wrote:
> Running "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1" again, and then trying again for texlive-base, spits out the 
> same issue I've reported.

Interesting, I don't see that in my case ...

$ pkg-reconfigure libpaper1
Replacing config file /etc/papersize with new version
tl-paper: setting paper size for context to letter: /var/lib/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys-paper.tex
tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to letter: /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg
tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to letter: /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps
tl-paper: setting paper size for pdftex to letter: /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex
tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to letter: /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --refresh.
        This may take some time... 
...
$

Can you please do
	for i in xdvi|pdftex|dvips|dvipdfmx|context ; do
		echo "=== $i ==="
		tl-paper get $i
	done
and send the output? And then we continue debugging. It fails in
	tl-paper get $prg
calls and thus it seems something in your configurations files for one
of these programs (or all) seem to be broken.

Best

Norbert

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