[tldistro] texlive 2008 fails to find files even though they're there...

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

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...