[tldistro] texi2dvi no longer works after installation of texlive 2011

[Jarmo Hurri]

Greetings.

While trying to compile the newest version of Asymptote I had to locally
install texlive 2011 in my Fedora 14. Otherwise everything has been
working perfectly so far, but now texi2dvi stopped working
installation. An effort to compile the main document of Asymptote
results in the following

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[jarmo at localhost doc]$ texi2dvi --pdf asymptote.texi; echo $?
1
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There is no output file. texi2dvi -V gives no useful information.

I have tried both texi2dvi version 1.135 (default in Fedora 14) and
version 1.166 (newest I could find).

Inspired by the manual page of texi2dvi I defined the shell variable

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[jarmo at localhost doc]$ export TEXI2DVI_BUILD_MODE=tidy
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which makes texi2dvi retain some intermediate files. Running the same
command as above after this generated the directory asymptote.t2d, under
which I found the file txiversion.log (the other files / dirs did not
contain anything useful). At the end of txiversion.log I can find the
following:

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! Undefined control sequence.
\resetmathfonts ...font 2=\tensy \textfont \itfam 
                                                  =\tenit \textfont \slfam =...
l.2203 \definetextfontsizexi
                            
? 
! Emergency stop.
\resetmathfonts ...font 2=\tensy \textfont \itfam 
                                                  =\tenit \textfont \slfam =...
l.2203 \definetextfontsizexi
                            
End of file on the terminal!
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This suggests that this is where texi2dvi has stopped. Running
"pdflatex txiversion.tex" gives the same error.

However, running "tex txiversion.tex" gives no problem. Thus I started
to think that maybe the problem is pdf-specific, so I tried texi2dvi
without the --pdf -switch, that is, "texi2dvi asymptote.texi". This did
not help; this was explained by the fact that "latex txiversion.tex"
also gives the error.

I am a bit stuck. Help would be much appreciated.

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Jarmo