From bero at arklinux.ch  Thu Oct  2 21:40:40 2008
From: bero at arklinux.ch (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:40:40 +0200
Subject: [tldistro] texlive 2008 fails to find files even though they're
	there...
Message-ID: <200810022140.40177.bero@arklinux.ch>

Hi,
has anyone else run into this?

[bero at dev ~]$ latex sample2e
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
 %&-line parsing enabled.

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
[bero at dev ~]$ strace -e open latex sample2e 2>&1 |grep texmf.cnf
open("/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
[bero at dev ~]$ grep ^TEXMFMAIN /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
TEXMFMAIN = /usr/share/texmf
[bero at dev ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 401 2008-09-29 
10:24 /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map


From preining at logic.at  Thu Oct  2 21:46:21 2008
From: preining at logic.at (Norbert Preining)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:46:21 +0200
Subject: [tldistro] texlive 2008 fails to find files even though they're
	there...
In-Reply-To: <200810022140.40177.bero@arklinux.ch>
References: <200810022140.40177.bero@arklinux.ch>
Message-ID: <20081002194621.GC27311@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>

On Do, 02 Okt 2008, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> has anyone else run into this?

Do you run the right kpsewhich etc? I have seen that, there was one
report of that, but we couldn't track it down ...

> [bero at dev ~]$ strace -e open latex sample2e 2>&1 |grep texmf.cnf
> open("/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> [bero at dev ~]$ grep ^TEXMFMAIN /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> TEXMFMAIN = /usr/share/texmf
> [bero at dev ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 401 2008-09-29 
> 10:24 /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map

Output of printenv? Maybe there is something there to be found?

Best wishes

Norbert

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From karl at freefriends.org  Thu Oct  2 21:55:55 2008
From: karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:55:55 -0500
Subject: [tldistro] texlive 2008 fails to find files even though
	they're	there...
In-Reply-To: <200810022140.40177.bero@arklinux.ch>
Message-ID: <200810021955.m92Jttx06553@f7.net>

    has anyone else run into this?

Environment variable interference?


From bero at arklinux.ch  Thu Oct  2 21:55:35 2008
From: bero at arklinux.ch (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:55:35 +0200
Subject: [tldistro] texlive 2008 fails to find files even though they're
	there...
In-Reply-To: <200810022140.40177.bero@arklinux.ch>
References: <200810022140.40177.bero@arklinux.ch>
Message-ID: <200810022155.35904.bero@arklinux.ch>

On Thursday 02 October 2008 21:40:40 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not
> [bero at dev ~]$ grep ^TEXMFMAIN /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> TEXMFMAIN = /usr/share/texmf
> [bero at dev ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 401 2008-09-29
> 10:24 /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map

I figured it out after inserting a few debug statements -- this is caused by a 
missing ls-R file and can be fixed by running texhash.
A better error message would be rather helpful here...

From preining at logic.at  Thu Oct  2 22:08:39 2008
From: preining at logic.at (Norbert Preining)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:08:39 +0200
Subject: [tldistro] texlive 2008 fails to find files even though they're
	there...
In-Reply-To: <200810022155.35904.bero@arklinux.ch>
References: <200810022140.40177.bero@arklinux.ch>
	<200810022155.35904.bero@arklinux.ch>
Message-ID: <20081002200839.GA30485@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>

On Do, 02 Okt 2008, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> missing ls-R file and can be fixed by running texhash.

Argggg .... 

> A better error message would be rather helpful here...

No, it is the right error message. Your texmf.cnf tells the system to
ONLY look at ls-R, and if that is missing so be it ...

Best wishes

Norbert

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