Bug#294405: tetex-base: unable to process even a sample file

[jsbien@duch.mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bien)]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:45:43 +0100
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:

> severity 294405 grave
> stop

Thank you very much for so quick answer and my apology for a false
alarm.

[...]

> Hm. Are you sure that you want /var/tmp/t17/texmf-var in your TEXMF
> search path?

This is the culprit. I used to switch between tetex and the texlive
image (one of the reasons is that cjk-latex is broken from the very
beginning), which (for the reasons described in a BachoTeX paper) used
just this directory, but the directory was empty for quite a long
time. Recently I made again an experiment with texlive (had to typeset
again an old paper of mine) which populated the directory. As this
coincided with tetex upgrade, I blamed tetex for the problem.

On the other hand I don't understand why language.dat from
/var/tmp/tl7 took precende before /usr/share..., but I will have look
into it.

Thanks again for your help

Best regards

Janusz