Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4) >> > (Fatal base file error; I'm stymied) >> >> The next one... >> >> $ kpsewhich --format=fmt mf.base > > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mf.base
It should be (and probably is...) in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ (since about a year if you followed unstable or testing). Please send us the output of the following commands: ls -ld /usr/share/texmf/web2c ls -ld /var/lib/texmf/web2c ls -l /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ The last command has the following output on my system with teTeX-3.0: total 416 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30806 2005-08-17 18:04 aleph.pool -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5320 2001-04-01 17:51 amiga-pl.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 1999-02-17 00:42 cp1250cs.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5573 2001-04-01 17:51 cp1250pl.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5073 2001-04-01 17:51 cp1250t1.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2811 2004-07-31 07:30 cp227.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 1999-02-17 00:42 cp852-cs.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5766 2001-04-01 17:51 cp852-pl.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2738 1999-05-30 19:56 cp8bit.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5361 2001-04-01 17:51 il1-t1.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 986 1999-02-17 00:42 il2-cs.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5572 2001-04-01 17:51 il2-pl.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5115 2001-04-01 17:51 il2-t1.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 920 1999-05-30 19:56 kam-cs.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 895 1999-05-30 19:56 kam-t1.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6906 2003-08-29 17:39 macce-cs.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5909 2002-05-26 00:06 macce-pl.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5773 2002-05-26 00:06 macce-t1.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6013 2001-04-01 17:51 maz-pl.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22203 2005-08-17 18:04 mf.pool lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-08-17 18:33 mfw.base -> mf.base lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-08-17 18:21 mktex.cnf -> /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1373 2005-08-17 18:04 mktexdir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 328 2005-08-17 18:04 mktexdir.opt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7613 2005-08-17 18:04 mktexnam -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3821 2005-08-17 18:04 mktexnam.opt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4763 2005-08-17 18:04 mktex.opt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1741 2005-08-17 18:04 mktexupd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24696 2005-08-17 18:04 mp.pool -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2306 2004-02-27 18:17 natural.tcx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30132 2005-08-17 18:04 omega.pool -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38166 2005-08-17 18:04 pdfetex-pl.pool -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35541 2005-08-17 18:04 pdfetex.pool -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35757 2005-08-17 18:04 pdfxtex.pool -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3394 2002-08-25 03:45 tcvn-t5.tcx lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-08-17 18:20 texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26786 2005-08-17 18:04 tex.pool -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3399 2002-08-25 03:49 viscii-t5.tcx That is, it should contain only files with extensions tcx, pool, and opt, plus symlinks to configuration files and the three mktex* scripts. The symlink from mfw.base to mf.base is actually a bug. You can delete (or move out of the way) all other files, especially files with extension fmt or efmt. After that, please try again... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
