I fixed the problem following the instructions stated in the question&answer 24 of this FAQ: http://www.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/~flight/stepTeX/teTeX-FAQ
What I did was to comment some of the languages in languages.dat until it started working. I have to say that I never selected those languages, uncommented those lines or anything like that. I guess that something, maybe not directly related to tetex-bin, changed my language.dat without telling me about it. I'm attaching the /etc/texmf/language.dat that worked. -- Besos, Maggie.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % File : language.dat % Purpose : specify which hypenation patterns to load % while running iniTeX %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% To make it possible for package scripts to parse this file, %% please use only "%! " to comment out hyphenation patterns! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % CAUTION: the first language will be the default if no style-file % (e.g. german.sty) is used. % Since version 3.0 of TeX, hyphenation patterns for multiple languages are % possible. Unless you know what you are doing, please let the american % english patterns be the first ones. The babel system allows you to % easily change the active language for your texts. For more information, % have a look to the documentation in texmf/doc/generic/babel. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % The hyphenation pattern files are in the dirctory: % texmf/tex/generic/hyphen %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % The US-english patterns should be loaded *always* and as *first* ones. % Define USenglish as an alias for american. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% american ushyph1.tex =USenglish %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % UK english, TWO LINES! To enabling these lines, remove %! and the space. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %! british ukhyphen.tex %! =UKenglish % english should always be defined. Either an alias for american or british. =english %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % By default, most languages are enabled - there should be no problems. % If you want to use only a subset, please use '%! ' as comment sign. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % French and German, TWO lines each! french frhyph.tex =patois german dehypht.tex =austrian % For use with ngerman.sty (neue Rechtschreibung): ngerman dehyphn.tex =naustrian %! bahasa inhyph.tex basque bahyph.tex catalan cahyph.tex %! croatian hrhyph.tex %! czech czhyph.tex % depends on other files from tex/csplain %! danish dkhyphen.tex dutch nehyph.tex %! finnish fi8hyph.tex greek grhyph.tex %! icelandic icehyph.tex %! irish gahyph.tex italian ithyph.tex latin lahyph.tex %! magyar huhyph.tex %! norsk nohyph.tex % old file %! norsk nohyphb.tex % see texmf/doc/generic/nohyph/README.nohyph %! norsk nohyphbc.tex % see texmf/doc/generic/nohyph/README.nohyph %! polish plhyph.tex portuges pt8hyph.tex romanian rohyphen.tex %! russian ruhyphen.tex % note: edit ruhyphen.tex for your encoding! %! slovak skhyph.tex % depends on other files from tex/csplain %! slovene sihyph23.tex spanish sphyph.tex %! swedish sehyph.tex %! turkish trhyph.tex % For Ukrainian, either use ukrhyph.tex (and edit that file for the encoding % that you need) or use one of the ukrhyph.ENC files. %! ukrainian ukrhyph.tex %! ukrainian ukrhyph.t2a %! ukrainian ukrhyph.lcy %! ukrainian ukrhyph.ot2 % A "language" without hyphenation: nohyphenation zerohyph.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Please contact me, if for any of the following languages there are % freely available hyphenation tables: % catalan esperanto galician swedish % I might want to include them in a future version of this file. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Email : Thomas Esser, [EMAIL PROTECTED] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% checked by postinst 2.0.2a-1 %% %% do not remove this comment! %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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