Package: texlive-binaries Version: 2009-6 Severity: important Hi,
When $HOME contains a trailing "/", pdftex takes an absolute age to generate a PDF file from a .tex source file. It seems this problem has been reported once before, in 2008, in Ubuntu, as per the following report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/192877 This bug is still very present in today's version of TeX Live, so I am very dubious about the claim that it's fixed upstream. It's easy to reproduce -- just compare the following: 1. HOME="$HOME/" time pdftex some_file.tex 2. HOME="/home/$USER" time pdftex some_file.tex Running number (1) above will result in pdftex sitting there with 100% CPU and an ever-increasing load average. On my machine it took ~36 minutes to run. Compared with (2) which took 0.9 seconds. Note that this bug also affects installing TeX Live -- and in no word of a joke, installing the texlive meta package took over 24 hours of a straight run -- all because my $HOME has a trailing slash on it. Note also that I do not override the system default value of what $HOME is set to - so I would be very reluctant indeed to suggest that one should change their $HOME to not contain a trailing slash. Doing this in a shell startup file simply spells disaster, so this bug needs fixing upstream still. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-6 GCC support library ii libkpathsea5 2009-6 TeX Live: path search library for ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpoppler5 0.12.4-1 PDF rendering library ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii tex-common 2.08 common infrastructure for building ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime texlive-binaries recommends no packages. texlive-binaries suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Thomas Adam -- "It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head." -- "Hush The Warmth", Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
