Bug#273789: Bug #273789: fmtutil.cnf not found, Installation OK

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu> schrieb:

> Dear Frank:
>
>   Thank you for you reply.
>
>   I am attaching the output that you wanted. Please note that I sent the
>   email from the office machine, so some of the packages may be wrong.

Thanks for the output. It seems as if everything would be in
order. Obviously it isn't...

>   Also, I discovered that when I ran latex from emacs under X it was
>   able to run successcully. Xemacs fails. I was unable to find the
>   tex.el file where the commands are which do this.

This is a completely different issue: The program that offers to run
LaTeX under Emacsen is AUCTeX, and there are different versions for
XEmacs and GNU Emacs: XEmacs has its own, built-in AUCTeX, but it is
rather old, whereas for GNU Emacs there is a separate package, which
contains a rather recent AUCTeX.

So it might be that you have an additional bug in XEmacs, or just a
messy XEmacs configuration. But this is a different issue than the
"fmtutil.cnf not found".

>   I have tried to run latex both as scanagar or as root. Both fail. I
>   run texconfig as root and it fails because it fails to find
>   fmtutil.cnf. 

Can you send us the output of

kpsewhich latex.efmt
ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c

and with any LaTeX file - it doesn't matter which - 

latex filename.tex
latex --kpathsea-debug=126 filename.tex

The last command produces lots of output, probably it's better to
redirect it into a file:

latex --kpathsea-debug=126 filename.tex > debug.log 2>&1

and send us "debug.log".

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer