Bug#748271: [latex-cjk-common] latex command did not work until I ran it once under superuser!?

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Fri, 16 May 2014, Zephyrus C wrote:
>         tlmgr conf

These are the same besides the fact that you have a completely
crazy PATH as user, with many items appearing several times. 
Anyway, no influence.

> root@vm-debian-amd64:/tmp# kpsewhich -all texmf.cnf
> 
> /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf

Looks fine.

> ii  texlive-lang-c 2013.2014040 all          TeX Live: Chinese/Japanese/Korean

looks fine.

> root@vm-debian-amd64:/tmp# root@vm-debian-amd64:/tmp# ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ptex/
> ptex.fmt  ptex.log

looks fine.

> /home/username/.texmf-var:

looks fine.

It looks all fine but:
> That /usr and /var both had about oly 30+ MiB left is a little       
> disturbing but should not cause a big issue.          

That would explain *why* root can work and user not.

There is normally a certain percentage of disk space reserved
for root. That means, if there is *reallY* only a bit of
space left, then users cannot create not even temp files,
nothing, while root can still do it.


I would recommend:
* removing something (apt-get clean for example removes downloaded
  but already installed .deb packages)
* check if user then can work.

If not, then please create a minimal file foo.tex containing only
	Hello\bye
and then run
	tex -kpathsea-debug=-1 -recorder foo.tex 2>foo-debug.log
and send me the output

Norbert

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