Still present in precise, which uses texlive 2009-15 if the HOME has a trailing /
Seems fixed in at least in saucy, which contains texlive 2013 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to texlive-bin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192877 Title: pdftex for some reason scans the whole home directory Status in “texlive-bin” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Binary package hint: texlive-base-bin When called as "pdftex filename.tex" the pdftex doesn't work as expected (I was using latex or pdflatex from tetex-bin and worked fine for years). It does only print: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. and waits there for hours. I tried to strace the executable and found that is scans recursively my home directory probably searching for something. This is quite unacceptable. A partial output of strace is: [...] write(1, "This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.14159"..., 55) = 55 write(1, " %&-line parsing enabled.\n", 26) = 26 access("./pdftex.fmt", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/home/nmav/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0711, st_size=26488, ...}) = 0 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 open("/home/nmav/.texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) getdents(3, /* 143 entries */, 4096) = 4088 stat("/home/nmav/1", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=815, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/nmav/40", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/nmav/1g", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4013, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/nmav/dh", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=168, ...}) = 0 open("/home/nmav/dh/.texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/nmav/cv", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=96, ...}) = 0 open("/home/nmav/cv/.texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/nmav/gc", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1312, ...}) = 0 open("/home/nmav/gc/.texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/nmav/ip", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=80, ...}) = 0 open("/home/nmav/ip/.texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/nmav/sn", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=352, ...}) = 0 open("/home/nmav/sn/.texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/home/nmav/sn/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=352, ...}) = 0 fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 open("/home/nmav/sn/.texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) getdents(4, /* 10 entries */, 4096) = 384 stat("/home/nmav/sn/auth", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=336, ...}) = 0 open("/home/nmav/sn/auth/.texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [...] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/192877/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
