On Mo, 18 Feb 2008, Nikos wrote: > and waits there for hours. I tried to strace the executable and found > that is scans recursively my home directory probably searching for > something. This is quite unacceptable. A partial output of strace is:
What is your HOME env variable? What is TEXMFHOME? We had similar problems because HOME had a terminal /, which made TEXMFHOME=/path/to/home//texmf and thus searches the full homedir. It is important that HOME does not have a terminal slash. Next release (TeX Live 2008) will have a fix for that Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUDE A polite joke reserved for use in the presence of vicars. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- pdftex for some reason scans the whole home directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192877 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs