Bug#748271: [latex-cjk-common] latex command did not work until I ran it once under superuser!?
Hi Zephyrus
I have been trying to unravel the exact problem you are facing, and it
seems that the problem has more to do with the way that Debian
packages got installed, and that some of the post-installation steps
did not go into error mode.
However, this bug thread has become a bit convoluted. To clear up
things, I would like you to answer a number of questions.
1. Does pTeX run fine when you parse your minimal TeX document under
user "root"? (BTW, I am not advocating this as your normal process;
please run TeX binaries under a normal user account for regular use.)
2. As Norbert has suggested, please run "dpkg -l tex-common" under user "root".
3. Space issues and appropriate error traps can perhaps be
accommodated by the CJK packages, TeXlive packages or even the dpkg
packages. But I need to understand a bit more about your current
setup, and if packages were upgraded according to a process that is
not out of the ordinary.
Can you please summarise your installation / upgrade path?
The system always reserves some space on the hard disk for user root.
When your disk is 99.9xx% full, processes run under regular users will
face problems, but user root still has a bit of space left. However,
"dpkg" is also run under user root, so my guess is that your disk was
temporarily 100% full, and that some errors may not have been trapped.
Thank you.
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Danai
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