Re: Can't find file "pdftex.map"

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"SJ" == Steve Juranich <sjuranic@kant.ee.washington.edu>

Steve,

   SJ> I apologize for making noise on the maintainer's list for
   SJ> this, but I didn't find any information on the "preferred"
   SJ> way of making a bug report.

The ``preferred way'' of filing a bug report is to send a message
to <submit@bugs.debian.org>.  You should include a meaningful
Subject line, and, in the body of the message, a set of
``psuedoheaders'' used by the bug-tracking system to assign bug
reports to the right package (Package, Version, Severity).  

You should include a detailed description of the bug, along with
information about your system, including the versions of all the
packages the package you're having problems with depend on.

The procedure and format of the message are explained in more
detail at <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting>.


Having said that, Debian provides a package called ``reportbug''
that includes a Python script that will walk you through the
process, allow you to check current bug reports to see if your bug
has already been reported, and gather all the necessary
information about dependencies.

Back to the problem you reported:

   SJ> When I try to run pdflatex on a source file, I get the
   SJ> following errors:

   SJ>    his is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
   SJ>    (versesq3-00.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]
   SJ>    LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1

>From these messages, it looks like you're running an older set of
teTeX packages than the most recent packages that are available
(in woody).  You may be running the packages that came with
potato, or you may be running even older packages -- I can't tell
without more information.


   SJ> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls 
   SJ> Document Class: article 1999/01/07 v1.4a 
   SJ> Standard LaTeX document class

These message indicate that you have a newer package installed,
but that you haven't rebuild your formats.  You might want to try
running (as root), `fmtutil --all'.


   SJ> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
   SJ> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
   SJ> loading : Context Support Macros / Missing
   SJ> )
   SJ> loading : Context Support Macros / PDF
   SJ> ) [1

Are you attempting to use the ConTeXt macros?  My pdflatex doesn't
try to load these files.  These files are in tetex-base, so you
should definitely have them.


   SJ> Warning: pdflatex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file

I wonder if your ls-R files might be out of date.  Try typing (as
root), mktexlsr.  (It should be run by the `tetex-bin' script in
/etc/cron.daily, but maybe there's a problem?)


   SJ> [1]+  Done                    acroread versesq3-00.pdf
   SJ> Segmentation fault

Presumably these errors are from some other process?

   SJ> I've checked, and I do have a file called pdftex.map in
   SJ> /etc/texmf/dvips, and the permissions are set to 644 (owner
   SJ> is root.root).  I know it's not my source, because it will
   SJ> process on an RH box.  How do I fix this?  It's _critical_
   SJ> that I get this working.

Try the following:

   1. Rebuild your ls-R files with `mktexlsr' (as root)

   2. Rebuild your formats with `fmtutil --all' (as root)

   3. Consider upgrading to the tetex packages in woody.  You can
      do so easily by adding a line like

         deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free

      to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then typing (as root)

	 apt-get update
	 apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-doc tetex-extra tetex-lib

      Those commands will update your APT lists, then download and
      install the newest teTeX packages available.  The
      installation process should update all of your formats and
      your ls-R files, as well.

      If you don't want to upgrade other packages to the versions
      in woody, be sure to remove the line you added to
      sources.list (or just comment it out with a ``#'' at the
      start of the line), and type `apt-get update' again to reset
      the lists.

If all of those options fail, please open a bug (using the
`reportbug' script or by hand) with a description of everything
you've tried to fix the problem (including the things I've
suggested and what happened after you tried them).

   CMC

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