[tex-live] Problem with kpathsea?

Wolfgang Fleischer w.fleischer at erlenweg.de
Tue Nov 25 19:45:14 CET 2008


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Hi

When installing TeX Live 2008 on our server here I was faced with the
following problem. I some way it is a rare problem.

The client box is a XP SP3 with Novell Client installed. TeX Live
resides on a Server (Open Enterprise Server).
All traces of TeX Live 2007 has been removed from the client.

Below are some  output snippets from a command line.

The first shows the result of the path command. Network drives are
placed at the end.
The second shows the result of the command map.
Watch in both outputs the drive letter w:
Its a so called search mapping, which the novell client are appends to
the path.
Part third the command 'which latex'. latex.exe is found at the correct
place.
Now part four. The output of the command 'latex' shows the problem.


Thanks

Wolfgang Fleischer

P.S.:
At the moment I work around the problem by using the TL2007 way of
configuration. I set TEXMFCNF and replace in texmf.cnf $SELFAUTOPARENT
with a hard coded path.




G:\>path
PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\W
\nls;C:\WINDOWS\system32\nls\deutsch;C:\Programme\OpenAFS\Client\
ramme\OpenAFS\Common;C:\Programme\Novell\ZENworks\;W:.;X:.;Y:.;Z:


G:\>map
Drives A,B,C,D,E map to a local disk.
Drive F: = JOTA_SYS.SERVER.HAUS_41: \
Drive G: = ETA_HOME.SERVER.HAUS_39:MRZ\HOME\MRZ_ADMIN \
Drives I,J map to a local disk.
Drive K: = JOTA_APPS.SERVER.HAUS_41: \
      -----    Search Drives    -----
S1: = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
S2: = C:\WINDOWS
S3: = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WBEM
S4: = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\NLS
S5: = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\NLS\DEUTSCH
S6: = C:\PROGRA~1\OPENAFS\CLIENT\PROGRAM
S7: = C:\PROGRA~1\OPENAFS\COMMON
S8: = C:\PROGRA~1\NOVELL\ZENWORKS\
S9: = W:. [JOTA_APPS.SERVER.HAUS_41:TEX\BIN\WIN32 \]



G:\>which latex.exe
W:.\latex.exe


G:\>latex
warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these
directories:
W:/;W:/;W:;W://share/texmf-local/web2c;W://share/texmf-local/web2c;W:/share/texm
f-local/web2c;W://texmf-local/web2c;W://texmf-local/web2c;W:/texmf-local/web2c;W
://share/texmf/web2c;W://share/texmf/web2c;W:/share/texmf/web2c;W://texmf/web2c;
W://texmf/web2c;W:/texmf/web2c.
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
**^C

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