"Jeffrey B. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: base > Severity: grave > > Installed sarge this last weekend
That is, you installed from scratch, it wasn't an upgrade from woody, right? > and now trying to latex a document, but > having a cascade of problems in getting it to work. Unfortunately, you told reportbug the wrong package name. This has the effect that some valuable information is missing. Please be so kind and send us the missing information. If you answer to this mail, please run the command reportbug -b tetex-base don't bother with the subject it asks for. It will open an editor with some text already in it; please copy the text into your answer. (Alternatively, you can use "reportbug tetex-base", choose "y" when asked whether the bug appears, and type in the number, 297284 - this will send a separate mail). > First problem is: > > > /home/jeff/unk/250/exams/1[429] r lat > latex wrapper > This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.efmt > fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. > I can't find the format file `latex.efmt'! > > I fixed that by rebuilding the ls-lR file via texconfig. (Also moved > fmtutil.cnf to /etc/texmf and put a link at wherever it was.) This was not the right way to fix it. You should remove the symlink in /var/lib/texmf/web2c, and run (as root) update-fmtutil. To find the cause why fmtutil.cnf was not found, please send us the contents of the files /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf, and the output of grep texmf.cnf /var/lib/ucf/hashfile > However, > the next is not so obvious. I now get (at the tail of a long output: > > ... > No pages of output. > Transcript written on latex.log. > mv: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.log': Permission > denied > mv: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt': Permission > denied > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt not a file. > I can't find the format file `latex.efmt'! Please run dpkg-reconfigure tetex-base Does that fix the problem? If not, does dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin help? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
