[OS X TeX] Major path puzzlement

[stephenmoye at cox.net]

> Did you by any chance install a Unix porting system (Fink, DarwinPorts)  
> on your machines? What is $PATH for you?

9:38 SGM_OSX ~: echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/local/bin/:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/
bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/X11R6/bin

> It might also be that for some reason the folder texmf.local got  
> corrupt, and then that reinstalling did not touch it. Did you backup  
> and erase it before reinstalling?

I'll try that.

> Third thing: do you have a texmf.cnf or ls-R file inside  
> ~/Library/texmf/? There shouldn't be, I think.

There was, but deleting it seemed to make no difference.

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