[tex-live] prolems running latex in tex-live

[Ralph Boland]

2008/9/20 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>

> Hi Ralph,
>
> (please keep the list on the Cc so others can help, too)


Done

>
>
> On Sa, 20 Sep 2008, Ralph Boland wrote:
> > I will post there for future problems.  What is the "launchpad bug"?
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ the bugtracker (besides other of Ubuntu)

Thanks


>
>
> > > Does "successfully" mean that you could compile documents with
> > >        (pdf)latex
> > > ?
> > >
> > YES
>
> That is good.
>
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-06-27 00:05 texmf.cnf ->
> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
> > (a symbolic link)
>
> That is fine.
>
> > Yes,  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9245 2006-01-02 16:53 tcfmgr
>
> Fine, too
>
> >  sudo mktexlsr
> > mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> > mktexlsr: Done.
>
> Looks fine, too
>
> > No nothing has changed unfortunately.
>
> Bummer. Can you call
>        fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdflatex
> and send me the output?
>

Here is the output; it is the same as before:
     fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdflatex
     tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not
found.
     fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.

NOW RUNNING SAME command as root:
output is exactly the same.

Finally using sudo fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdflatex > fmtutil-sys-out I get the
attached file plus the screen output:

    fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' ...
    fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt installed.

I don't know why this is different from running as root.



> Or better, AS ROOT (!!!) (can you switch permanently to root?) and the
> full output of that
>        v=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR`
>        c=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSCONFIG`
>        TEXMFVAR="$v"
>        TEXMFCONFIG="$c"
>        export TEXMFVAR TEXMFCONFIG
>        echo v=$v
>        echo c=$c
>        bash -x /usr/bin/fmtutil --byfmt pdflatex
>
>
> > The advice given was to reinstall.
>
> Useless.
>
> Mind that I am leaving in a few hours for Tbilisi/Georgia, so I wont be
> able to help you for one week.


I appreciate any help you provide.  I can't wait a week though so I will
seek help
elsewhere.

Thanks again.

Ralph
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