On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:01:43PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
[ cut away the log files ]
> I didn't have a look at fmtutil.log2 yet, but it seems that the format
> file is in fact generated. It also seems that it had been generated
> previously, because you say that you removed the file.
>
> Can you send us
>
> ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c
It's an ls -al now, so you can check the permissions on the dir too
total 10284
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2004-09-08 08:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 83 2004-09-07 10:20 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4508004 2004-09-07 20:09 cont-en.efmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31293 2004-09-07 20:09 cont-en.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 733728 2004-09-07 20:09 elatex.efmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10049 2004-09-07 20:09 elatex.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 278595 2004-09-07 20:09 etex.efmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3639 2004-09-07 20:09 etex.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4024 2004-09-07 16:21 fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 733672 2004-09-07 20:09 latex.efmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 730334 2004-09-08 08:29 latex.fmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10013 2004-09-08 08:29 latex.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150364 2004-09-07 11:45 mf.base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 734 2004-09-07 11:45 mf.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2004-09-07 10:20 mf-nowin.base -> mf.base
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2004-09-07 10:20 mfw.base -> mf.base
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2004-09-07 10:19 mktex.cnf -> /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226273 2004-09-07 20:09 mptopdf.efmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3627 2004-09-07 20:09 mptopdf.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 742612 2004-09-07 20:09 pdfelatex.efmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10072 2004-09-07 20:09 pdfelatex.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 287948 2004-09-07 20:09 pdfetex.efmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3660 2004-09-07 20:09 pdfetex.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 742603 2004-09-07 20:09 pdflatex.efmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 739281 2004-09-07 20:09 pdflatex.fmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10067 2004-09-07 20:09 pdflatex.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254619 2004-09-07 20:09 pdftex.fmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2457 2004-09-07 20:09 pdftex.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2004-09-07 10:20 plain.base -> mf.base
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2004-09-07 10:20 plain.fmt -> tex.fmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 245275 2004-09-07 20:09 tex.fmt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2433 2004-09-07 20:09 tex.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4759 2004-09-07 11:45 updmap.cfg
> and can you please try if the processing of simple latex files, as you
> showed in the first mail, still fails? And if it still fails, can you
> please test if you can run latex successfully if you copy the tex file
> into root's home directory and try it as root?
It still fails, even if I run it as root...
# latex book.tex
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
\@currdir set to: ./.
Assuming \openin and \input
have the same search path.
Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser.
catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters,
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
hacks, control, par, spacing, files, font encodings, lengths,
====================================
Local config file fonttext.cfg used
====================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/fonttext.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fonttext.ltx
=== Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omlcmm.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmsy.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omxcmex.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ucmr.fd)))
====================================
Local config file preload.cfg used
=====================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/preload.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/preload.ltx)) page nos., x-ref, environments,
center, verbatim, math definitions, boxes, title, sectioning, contents,
floats, footnotes, index, bibliography, output,
===========================================
Local configuration file hyphen.cfg used
===========================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/nehyph.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex))
=================================
Applying patch file ltpatch.ltx
=================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ltpatch.ltx)
) )
Beginning to dump on file latex.fmt
(format=latex 2004.9.8)
4175 strings of total length 54246
43719 memory locations dumped; current usage is 144&41802
3022 multiletter control sequences
\font\nullfont=nullfont
\font\OMX/cmex/m/n/10=cmex10
\font\tenln=line10
\font\tenlnw=linew10
\font\tencirc=lcircle10
\font\tencircw=lcirclew10
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/5=cmr5
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/7=cmr7
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/10=cmr10
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/5=cmmi5
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/7=cmmi7
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/10=cmmi10
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/5=cmsy5
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/7=cmsy7
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/10=cmsy10
3633 words of font info for 14 preloaded fonts
54 hyphenation exceptions
Hyphenation trie of length 20761 has 446 ops out of 35111
265 for language 1
181 for language 0
No pages of output.
Transcript written on latex.log.
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt installed.
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
Once more for reference; the latex file itself is:
\documentclass{book}
\title {Zen, and the art of motorcycle maintenance}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
hello
\end{document}
-Kees
PS: If necessary, I have no problems apt-get --purge remov'ing latex packages
to see if the problem still persists after I reinstall them. It might get rid
of valuable forensics as to the cause of this problem, however.
--
Drs. Kees Leune Tilburg University
Researcher Infolab, Room B 738
+31 13 466 2688 The Netherlands
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