<div dir="ltr"><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/20 Norbert Preining <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preining@logic.at">preining@logic.at</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Ralph,<br>
<br>
(please keep the list on the Cc so others can help, too)</blockquote><div><br>Done <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Sa, 20 Sep 2008, Ralph Boland wrote:<br>
> I will post there for future problems. What is the "launchpad bug"?<br>
<br>
</div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/</a> the bugtracker (besides other of Ubuntu)</blockquote><div>Thanks<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> > Does "successfully" mean that you could compile documents with<br>
> > (pdf)latex<br>
> > ?<br>
> ><br>
> YES<br>
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</div>That is good.<br>
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-06-27 00:05 texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf<br>
> (a symbolic link)<br>
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</div>That is fine.<br>
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> Yes, -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9245 2006-01-02 16:53 tcfmgr<br>
<br>
</div>Fine, too<br>
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> sudo mktexlsr<br>
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...<br>
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...<br>
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...<br>
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...<br>
> mktexlsr: Done.<br>
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</div>Looks fine, too<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> No nothing has changed unfortunately.<br>
<br>
</div>Bummer. Can you call<br>
fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdflatex<br>
and send me the output?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Here is the output; it is the same as before:<br> fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdflatex<br>
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.<br>
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. <br><br>NOW RUNNING SAME command as root:<br>output is exactly the same.<br><br>Finally using sudo fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdflatex > fmtutil-sys-out I get the<br>attached file plus the screen output:<br>
<br> fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' ...<br> fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt installed.<br><br>I don't know why this is different from running as root.<br>
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Or better, AS ROOT (!!!) (can you switch permanently to root?) and the<br>
full output of that<br>
v=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR`<br>
c=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSCONFIG`<br>
TEXMFVAR="$v"<br>
TEXMFCONFIG="$c"<br>
export TEXMFVAR TEXMFCONFIG<br>
echo v=$v<br>
echo c=$c<br>
bash -x /usr/bin/fmtutil --byfmt pdflatex<br>
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> The advice given was to reinstall.<br>
<br>
</div>Useless.<br>
<br>
Mind that I am leaving in a few hours for Tbilisi/Georgia, so I wont be<br>
able to help you for one week.</blockquote><div><br>I appreciate any help you provide. I can't wait a week though so I will seek help<br>elsewhere.<br><br>Thanks again.<br><br>Ralph </div></div><br>
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