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:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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) ################################## minimal input file ################################## other files ###################################### 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 ###################################### 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 ###################################### Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/ total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 jui 28 00:53 mktex.cnf ###################################### 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: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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