Public bug reported:
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)
[...]
** Affects: texlive-bin (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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pdftex for some reason scans the whole home directory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192877
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