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
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