pdflatex from texlive5b fails

Ross Moore ross@ics.mq.edu.au
Wed, 17 May 2000 11:38:20 +1000 (EST)


After downloading the TeXLive5b disk image,
2 problems emerged from running the installation
(solaris 2.7) :

1.

  A.  creating formats for CyrTeX failed due to
      missing fonts or metrics;

  B.  the installation stopped completely due to this error,
      and the formats already built were not copied/renamed
      to the intended final destination.

  C.  it was very difficult to find the file that controlled
      which formats to build; documentation on this point
      was poor --- found it eventually using  grep .

  D.  after commenting out the cyrtex line, all other formats
      were built and moved/renamed successfully.


pdfTeX works fine now, but ...


2.  pdflatex  fails on any document with the following message:

 Error: pdftex: zlib: deflateInit() failed

e.g.

{blinky:45} pdflatex test.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000313 (Web2C 7.3.1x)
(./test.tex{pdftex.cfg}
LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, ngerman, du
mylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/ccovol/texlive5b/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/ccovol/texlive5b/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/ccovol/texlive5b/texmf/tex/latex/ltxmisc/concrete.sty
(/ccovol/texlive5b/texmf/tex/latex/beton/beton.sty
Package: `beton' v1.3 <1995/03/05> (FJ)
) (/ccovol/texlive5b/texmf/tex/latex/euler/euler.sty
Package: `euler' v2.5 <1995/03/05> (FJ and FMi)

LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OML' has changed to `U' for symbol font
(Font)              `letters' in the math version `normal' on input line 35.


LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OML' has changed to `U' for symbol font
(Font)              `letters' in the math version `bold' on input line 35.

)) (./test.aux) (/ccovol/texlive5b/texmf/tex/latex/concmath/ot1ccr.fd) [1]
[2{/ccovol/texlive5b/texmf/pdftex/config/psfonts.map}{/ccovol/texlive5b/texmf/p
dftex/config/lw35.map}{/ccovol/texlive5b/texmf/pdftex/config/rawfonts.map}
Error: pdftex: zlib: deflateInit() failed
{blinky:46} 


This document has nothing on page 1, and just the page-number on page 2.

(It has nothing to do with concrete.sty --- that was just a test to
see if the cm-fonts were somehow causing the error.)


Is there something about this TeXLive5b that is unsuitable for
normal English/American use ? 
Perhaps a local  libz.a  is bad ?

Is the only solution to recompile pdfTeX from sources ?
Why does it fail as pdflatex but not as pdftex ?


Can anyone help ?

	Ross