tetex problems: postinstall hangs, format not installed, root can run latex

2005-04-14 Thread d j
Dear all, When I recently upgraded various cygwin components, including tetex, several things have gone wrong. I am baffled as cygwin is running fine on my home machine, which is very similar (but has local accounts and not networked accounts). After much tweaking (see below), my status is that o

tetex (latex) permission problem on NT

2004-03-09 Thread d j
Dear All, I could not find any reference to this anywhere, so FYI or maybe for the FAQ: Running Cygwin 1.5.7-1 on XP professional, any attempt to run latex produced an immediate permission error on texmf.cnf ('cannot access', if I recall well). I noticed that some of the files in the texmf subdi