[arch-general] Error when upgrading texlive-bin-2011.1-3-i686

[Lorenzo Bandieri]

Hi archers!

On 2011-09-15 TexLive was upgraded (see [1]). Initially I had no problems,
but in the following days there had been two subsequent upgrades of
texlive-bin, the last of wich yesterday (or today, last time I upgraded was
two days ago), that caused errors.

In both cases, the error was the same:

(5/5) upgrading
texlive-bin
[##################################################] 100%
>>> texlive: updating the filename database...
mktexlsr: Updating /etc/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
recreating all formats...Error: `eptex -ini  -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex
*eptex.ini' failed

###############################################
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /var/lib/texmf/web2c
for details.
##################################################

This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
`eptex -ini  -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex *eptex.ini' failed
 done.
 (logs are under /var/lib/texmf/web2c/<engine>/<formatname>.log)

Since errors were somewhat expected in non-fresh install [2], the first
time I solved reinstalling everything. However, on the last texlive-bin
upgrade (texlive-bin-2011.1-3-i686) the error showed up again, as I stated.
To me it's odd that I have to reinstall all texlive-most and texlive-lang
on every update, but on the bug report there is no workaround provided. I
googled but I didn't find anything, and searching on the forum returned no
hits.

So, I wonder if anyone had the same problem and if there is a solution
(apart from reinstalling texlive-most and texlive-lang...).

Thank you!

Regards,

Lorenzo




[1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/texlive-2011-update/
[2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25250