Bug#341827: same problem here

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org> wrote:

> I had the same problem.  My /tmp/tetex.postinst.XX* file attached.

Thank you, that helps to start debugging.  The first error is:

> fmtutil-sys: running `pdfetex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' ...
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
>  (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
> entering extended mode
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/latex.ini
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
> ! I can't find file `texsys.cfg'.
> l.130 \input texsys.cfg
>                        
> Please type another input file name: 
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.130 \input texsys.cfg
>                        
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on latex.log.

Arias, do you have the same error message?

texsys.cfg should be in /etc/texmf/latex/, and should be found as
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/texsys.cfg because it is a symlink to
the file in /etc.  Are both files present on your systems?

What is the output of the following commands:

kpsewhich -progname=latex texsys.cfg
kpsewhich --var-value TEXMF
grep texsys.cfg /var/lib/dpkg/status

TIA, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer