Bug#263840: tetex-bin: file latex.efmt cannot be generated

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 06.08.04 Samuel Mimram (samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org) wrote:

Hi,

> Since the last (I think) update of the tetex packages I'm not
> anymore able to compile latex files using latex. It seems to me
> that latex.efmt cannot be generated. Each time I trie to compile a
> .tex I get an output similar to the one reproduced below.
> 
In /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf should be two entries
latex           etex            language.dat    *latex.ini
and
pdflatex        pdfetex         language.dat    *pdflatex.ini

. Do they exist? If yes, the formats should have been generated
using fmtutil --all in postinst. If not: perhaps you have edited that
file manually and refused to replace your local version by the new
one shipped with the package. In this case you have to merge both
files (the local version and the package version) and run fmtutil
--missing again.
Yes, all that is not that optimal. Perhaps we should add a debconf
note or similar...

> Here are the efmt that I have:
> % ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.efmt
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/cont-en.efmt  /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.efmt
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/elatex.efmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mptopdf.efmt
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.efmt
> 
(pdf)latex.efmt i missing. Therefore:
> 
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.efmt
> running `tex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' ...
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INITEX)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/latex.ini
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg)
> ./texsys.aux found
> 
<snip>
> Hyphenation trie of length 16186 has 530 ops out of 35111
>   26 for language 3
>   235 for language 2
>   88 for language 1
>   181 for language 0
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on latex.log.
> rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.log': Permission denied
> mv: cannot move `latex.log' to `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.log': Permission denied
> rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt': Permission denied
> mv: cannot move `latex.fmt' to `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt': Permission denied
> I can't find the format file `latex.efmt'!
> 
He fails, cause the normal user can't write to /var/lib/texmf/web2c/.

H. 
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