<div dir="ltr">Dear Yassine,<div><br></div><div>I feel you should just remove the botched installation and do it all again. If you have the file for the DVD downloaded, it should be a breeze and a lot easier than finding what occurred and trying to fix it by trying individual commands.</div><div><br></div><div>There is almost no reason for you to use TL 2021, especially the ones listed in this thread.</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 3:44 PM Yassine Mrabet <<a href="mailto:yassine.mrabet@gmail.com">yassine.mrabet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped me out on this mailing list in debugging my fresh TeX Live 2023 installation. <br></div><div>As expressed in my first post, I had been trying to install the newest version of TeX Live on another partition, as my root partition was out of space. I tried numerous things to decipher the origin of the "execution slowness" issue that I was experiencing, but unfortunately, I was not able to resolve it. However, thanks to your suggestions, and after execution of commands in the Norbert message, I was able to generate a pdf. After generating all formats (taking one night), the output is so huge that I decided to place it in a repository : <a href="https://github.com/yassineMrabet/texlive2023_outputs" target="_blank">https://github.com/yassineMrabet/texlive2023_outputs</a></div><div>As a result the 'small2e.pdf' was generated after 30 minutes which is not horrible :D<br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div>Anyway, I finally decided to fallback to TeX Live 2021 minimal default and get my LaTeX environment running again.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:27 AM Norbert Preining <<a href="mailto:norbert@preining.info" target="_blank">norbert@preining.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Yassine,<br>
<br>
your report is incomplete, as Lars said.<br>
<br>
It seems that you did not properly finish the installation, formats <br>
are premade during installation, and your log shows that they are made<br>
on first run.<br>
<br>
> A simple *pdflatex -shell-escape helloWorld.tex* takes hours to compile<br>
<br>
That is even more strange. The log you send is the format build, which<br>
might take a few min on a very slow and old computer, and definitely not<br>
*hours*.<br>
<br>
Also, the log does not show the actual compilation output:<br>
<br>
> ~$ pdflatex -shell-escape sample.tex<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023) (preloaded format=pdflatex)<br>
> \write18 enabled.<br>
> <br>
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt<br>
<br>
Should not happen<br>
<br>
Then the format it build and saved:<br>
<br>
> mktexfmt [INFO]: log file copied to: /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.log<br>
> mktexfmt [INFO]: /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt installed.<br>
> mktexfmt [INFO]: disabled formats: 1<br>
> mktexfmt [INFO]: successfully rebuilt formats: 1<br>
> mktexfmt [INFO]: not selected formats: 53<br>
> mktexfmt [INFO]: total formats: 55<br>
> mktexfmt [INFO]: exiting with status 0<br>
<br>
That is even more strange as it seems that the fmtutil.cnf files was not<br>
properly installed.<br>
<br>
Then the tex run:<br>
<br>
> pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file<br>
<br>
Not good, and should not happen either.<br>
<br>
> ] (./sample.aux) ) </mypartition/texlive2023/t<br>
> exmf-dist/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/<a href="http://cmsy10.pk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cmsy10.pk</a>><br>
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 tcrm1000<br>
> <br>
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base<br>
> mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):<br>
> mktexfmt: /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf<br>
> mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:<br>
> mktexfmt: /home/username/.texlive2023/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf<br>
<br>
In fact there should be another in $TEXMFSYSCONFIG<br>
<br>
It cannot find hte basic fonts, which is strange.<br>
So it tries to builds the fonts from metafont sources.<br>
But metafont format is also not build ... <br>
<br>
<br>
Can you show the content of<br>
/mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf<br>
?<br>
<br>
I am pretty sure that your installation was interrupted or terminated,<br>
and you have a completely messed up installation.<br>
<br>
After having copied the content of the above file into the email, you<br>
can try<br>
mktexlsr<br>
tlmgr generate _fmtutil<br>
tlmgr generate _updmap<br>
updmap-sys<br>
fmtutil-sys --all<br>
that hopefully generates all formats and necessary support files.<br>
<br>
Best<br>
<br>
Norbert<br>
<br>
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