texlive-xetex crashes install (configure fails)

Setting up texlive-xetex (2012.20120611-5) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-xetex.cnf.
        This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.zIrRSYq7
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing texlive-xetex (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texlive-xetex
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

/tmp/fmtutil.zIrRSYq7

fmtutil: running `xetex -ini   -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' ...
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012/Debian) (INITEX)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
Killed