[tex-live] prolems running latex in tex-live

[Ralph Boland]

Apologies for sending this a second time.  The first time I accidentally hit
the send button.

I am running tex-live on a ubuntu 7.10 system.
I had had tex-live running successfully for a while but recently tried to
add a number of .cls and .sty files.
Once I added these files I was able to use them while running lyx (which
generates .tex files)
Eventually I got around to running latex on my .tex files.
When I did I got the following errors:

        kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
        tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig)
not found.
        fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.

Advice on the web advised me to reinstall tex-live which I did but it did
not help.
Eventually I discovered the texconfig command.
First I tried running texhash from inside texconfig but to no avail.
then I ran conf to show the configuration; the output is shown below.
Some of the  kpathsea variables have odd settings as far as I know.
In particular:

        TEXMFVAR=/home/rocky/.texmf-var
        TEXMFCONFIG=/home/rocky/.texmf-config

Neither of the above files exist in my home directory (rocky).

Questions

        1) Are these settings the source of my problem.
         2) If they are then how do I get them set correctly.
         3)  If they are not how do I do a proper reinstall.
              I assume I have modified or created a file somewhere
              that is affecting the reinstall but I don't know which file.

Thanks for any help.

Ralph Boland


OUTPUT from the  conf command from within texconfig:

=========================== version information ==========================
teTeX-src release:   (info not available)
teTeX-texmf release: (info not available)

==================== binaries found by searching $PATH ===================
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
kpsewhich: /usr/bin/kpsewhich
updmap: /usr/bin/updmap
fmtutil: /usr/bin/fmtutil
texconfig: /usr/bin/texconfig
tex: /usr/bin/tex
pdftex: /usr/bin/pdftex
mktexpk: /usr/bin/mktexpk
dvips: /usr/bin/dvips
dvipdfm: /usr/bin/dvipdfm

=========================== active config files ==========================
/etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/config
/etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps
/etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
/etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf
/etc/texmf/xdvi/XDvi
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg

============================= font map files =============================
psfonts.map: /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
pdftex.map: /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map
ps2pk.map: /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/ps2pk.map
dvipdfm.map: /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap/dvipdfm.map

=========================== kpathsea variables ===========================
TEXMFMAIN=/usr/share/texmf
TEXMFDIST=/usr/share/texmf-texlive
TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/share/texmf
TEXMFSYSVAR=/var/lib/texmf
TEXMFSYSCONFIG=/etc/texmf
TEXMFVAR=/home/rocky/.texmf-var
TEXMFCONFIG=/home/rocky/.texmf-config
TEXMFHOME=/home/rocky/texmf
VARTEXFONTS=/tmp/texfonts
TEXMF={/home/rocky/.texmf-config,/home/rocky/.texmf-var,/home/rocky/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-texlive}
SYSTEXMF=/var/lib/texmf,/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive
TEXMFDBS={!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-texlive}
WEB2C={/home/rocky/.texmf-config,/home/rocky/.texmf-var,/home/rocky/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-texlive}/web2c
TEXPSHEADERS=.:{/home/rocky/.texmf-config,/home/rocky/.texmf-var,/home/rocky/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-texlive}/{dvips,fonts/{enc,type1,type42,type3}}//
TEXCONFIG={/home/rocky/.texmf-config,/home/rocky/.texmf-var,/home/rocky/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-texlive}/dvips//
ENCFONTS=.:{/home/rocky/.texmf-config,/home/rocky/.texmf-var,/home/rocky/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-texlive}/fonts/enc//
TEXFONTMAPS=.:{/home/rocky/.texmf-config,/home/rocky/.texmf-var,/home/rocky/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-texlive}{/fonts/map,}{/kpsewhich,/pdftex,/dvips,}//

==== kpathsea variables (from environment only; ok if no output here) ====

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