Bug 1646348 - texdoc assetrion fails
Summary: texdoc assetrion fails
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: texlive
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-11-05 12:35 UTC by Horst H. von Brand
Modified: 2018-11-12 02:14 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-11-12 02:14:25 UTC
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2018-11-05 12:35:46 UTC
Description of problem:
texdoc fails with assertion message

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
texlive-texlive-texdoc-20180414-24.fc29.noarchtexdoc-20180414-24.fc29.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. texdoc systeme # The package is installed
2.
3.

Actual results:
[string "/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texdoc/..."]:569: assertion failed!

Expected results:
See documentation

Additional info:

Comment 1 Rajeesh 2018-11-08 10:49:24 UTC
I can also reproduce the problem in F29:x86_64.

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2018-11-08 14:56:30 UTC
Proper fix incoming, temporary workaround:

cd /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg
sudo ln -s ../texlive.tlpdb .

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-11-08 16:16:25 UTC
texlive-base-20180414-26.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-59f4f2a760

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2018-11-09 07:45:21 UTC
texlive-base-20180414-26.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-59f4f2a760

Comment 5 Rajeesh 2018-11-09 08:41:42 UTC
Tested and works fine!
Thanks for the swift response, Tom!

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-11-12 02:14:25 UTC
texlive-base-20180414-26.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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