Bug#497782: Re : Bug#497782: texlive-base-bin: latex compilation fails as "normal" user

["Jérôme Champavère" <jchampavere@gmail.com>]

Thanks for answering.

This is possible, given that I tried several things to get rid of this bug.

Here are some command-line results:

jchampavere@jlaptop:~/these/avancement_2008$ env -i latex avancement.tex
lstat(./latex) failed ...
./latex: No such file or directory
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./avancement.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/pandora/pandora.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/utf8.def
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/t1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/omsenc.dfu)))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)                the language `French'
(babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

*************************************
* Local config file frenchb.cfg used
*
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg))) (./avancement.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lm/t1lmr.fd) [1] (./avancement.aux) )
Output written on avancement.dvi (1 page, 4000 bytes).
Transcript written on avancement.log.

jchampavere@jlaptop:~/these/avancement_2008$ env | grep TEX
TEXINPUTS=:./Latex:./Latex/beamerinria:/home/jchampavere/.LaTeX/algorithms
TEXMF=:/usr/share/texmf-texlive

I need the TEXINPUTS to load some packages. I don't remember exactly
why I set this to TEXMF, but I should probably change this. What do
you think?

(I also had recently installed the pandora package directly in the
texmf tree and ran texhash, which did not break the whole thing)

2008/9/4, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>:
> "Jérôme Champavère" <jchampavere@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  jchampavere@jlaptop:~$ latex file.tex
>>  This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>>   %&-line parsing enabled.
>>   kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
>>   tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not
>>   found.
>>   fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
>>   I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
>>
>>  Running with sudo surprisingly does not fail.
> [...]
>>  I also noticed that using the front-end kile, I can compile the tex
>> documents.
>>  Only the command line bugs. I have no explication of such a behaviour.
>
> You probably have some environment variables set in your shell which
> spoil your latex run.  Try
>
> env -i latex file.tex
>
> and
>
> env | grep TEX
>
> Regards, Frank
> --
> Frank Küster
> Debian Developer (TeXLive)
> ADFC Miltenberg
> B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
>