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Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007.dfsg.2-3
Severity: important
When calling latex (or pdflatex) for compiling a tex document, I get
the following message:
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.
It appears that "Running mktexfmt latex.fmt" cannot be done by a normal
user: it gives the same error message as above. I tried it with sudo and
it worked. I got a long log with the last following lines:
fmtutil: /home/jchampavere/.texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt installed.
/home/jchampavere/.texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt
I found a similar bug in the bug reports, #486162. However, no
suggestion found there helped me to solve the problem, hence this
report.
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.
-- Package-specific info:
If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries
(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!
If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)
or
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 sep 3 17:29 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R
-> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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Config files
Warning: texmf.cnf cannot be found with kpsewhich!
Warning: fmtutil.cnf cannot be found with kpsewhich!
Warning: updmap.cfg cannot be found with kpsewhich!
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 sep 3 17:29
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.dat ->
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 jui 28 00:53 mktex.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
42c20d7e8bd343542772b5a145bf8ad8 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
5f7f6652cc8b8071c9e4ea6ba9e9f0a1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
f68e5add6afd6585b982f2f78e2e6a92 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
afccf1d3f87057411166a77c58e00bd1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
9da7c1c7b1eaf06f941af91f48a23068 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
7ae52efac46feb97010986e57877d12e /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf
055e06548bac99958d8ab2dd1248f2b4 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80tex4ht.cnf
37329819f1109e8a457e64b8b58fecdb /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
a8952d594677235951d447665ec46e9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
30f4f13357c2761ed01a6a15f28725a5 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
ab2fc06ffd389aa24d7ab44af8b735b7 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf~
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
ii ed 0.7-2 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library
ii libkpathsea4 2007.dfsg.2-3 TeX Live: path search library for
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080804-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler3 0.8.4-1.1 PDF rendering library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-2 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.10.0-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii texlive-common 2007.dfsg.1-3 TeX Live: Base component
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends:
ii perl-tk 1:804.028-1+b1 Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii texlive-base-bin-doc 2007.dfsg.2-3 TeX Live: Documentation files for
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin suggests:
ii ghostscript [postscript-vi 8.62.dfsg.1-3 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.6.5-2 PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii kghostview [postscript-vie 4:3.5.9-3 PostScript viewer for KDE
ii kpdf [pdf-viewer] 4:3.5.9-3 PDF viewer for KDE
ii okular [pdf-viewer] 0.7-2 document viewer for KDE 4
ii xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer] 3.02-1.3 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 3.007 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin is related to:
pn tetex-base <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available)
ii tex-common 1.11.2 common infrastructure for building
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
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