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



Hello,

I have the lines you mentioned in my 00tetex.cnf:

# Change "tex.ini -> bplain.ini" and "- -> language.dat"
# if you want babel support in tex:
tex             tex             -               tex.ini
# Change "etex -> tex" and "*latex.ini -> latex.ini" to get back
# the traditional, non-eTeX-2 enabled LaTeX format named latex.
# Analogous changes can be made for pdflatex.
latex           etex            language.dat    *latex.ini
etex            etex            language.def    *etex.ini
elatex          etex            language.dat    *elatex.ini
# Change "pdftex.ini -> pdfbplain.ini" and "- -> language.dat"
# if you want babel support in pdftex:
pdftex          pdftex          -       pdftex.ini
pdflatex        pdfetex         language.dat    *pdflatex.ini
pdfetex         pdfetex         language.def    *pdfetex.ini
pdfelatex       pdfetex         language.dat    *pdfelatex.ini
omega           omega           -       omega.ini
lambda          omega           language.dat    lambda.ini

And I have never modified any configuration file of latex. I have run
fmtutil --missing which gave me no output and did not correct the
problem nor apt-get install --reinstall tetex-bin.

Cheers,

Samuel.

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:06:04 +0200 Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
wrote:

> 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. 
> -- 
> sigmentation fault

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