Bug#528924: solved

[Jonas Stein <news@jonasstein.de>]

aptitude reinstall texlive-base texlive-base-bin
solved the problem


> What about the contents of /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/?

ls -al /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-05-18 10:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-07-08 23:31 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  284 2009-05-18 10:26 pdftexconfig.tex


cat /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
% Set pdfTeX parameters for pdf mode (replacing pdftex.cfg file).
% Thomas Esser, 2004. public domain.
\pdfoutput=1
\pdfcompresslevel=9
\pdfdecimaldigits=3
\pdfpagewidth=210 true mm
\pdfpageheight=297 true mm
\pdfhorigin=1 true in
\pdfvorigin=1 true in
\pdfpkresolution=600
\endinput

Thank you all.
--
Jonas Stein