Updates on August 9th killed my texlive/latex installation

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Hi,

after installting the texlive updates on August 9th into my OpenSuse 12.3 final I cannot compile any document anymore. The updates on Augsut 17th did not help. I already files a bug

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834278

however, noone answered yet.

$ latex example.tex
cb@betty:~/source/habil> latex habil.tex
warning: kpathsea: /etc/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /var/cache/texmf/fonts/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/TeX Live for SUSE Linux)
restricted \write18 enabled.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
warning: kpathsea: /etc/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: /var/cache/texmf/fonts/ls-R: No usable entries in ls-R.
warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
tcfmgr: config file tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found (ls-R missing?). fmtutil: config file fmtutil.cnf’ not found.
I can’t find the format file `latex.fmt’!

$ texhash
public: texhash: Success
$ mktexlsr --verbose
public: mktexlsr: Success

does nothing.

Please help.

Thanx in advance,

Chris

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On 2013-08-17 10:46, chba wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> after installting the texlive updates on August 9th into my OpenSuse

There was a bunch of texlive updates yesterday, too.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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> There was a bunch of texlive updates yesterday, too.

right. However, as written above, these updates did not change the Situation.

@Carlos (and all others)
Does your latex operate as desired? Could you please try to compile some document?

Thx, Chris

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I just tried. It is working fine for me.

Check whether you have a disk partition that is full. Maybe there wasn’t space to build the database to find tex components.

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On 2013-08-17 13:16, chba wrote:
>
>> There was a bunch of texlive updates yesterday, too.
>
> right. However, as written above, these updates did not change the
> Situation.
>
> @Carlos (and all others)
> Does your latex operate as desired? Could you please try to compile
> some document?

Sorry, I don’t really know why I have latex installed, as what I use is
LyX sometimes. Only some conversions seem to use latex.

If there is some latex sample document you know about that can be tried,
I will.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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My Partition has definitvely more than enough free space. Is there another command similar to texhash or mktexlsr to execute. It seems like some paths are not set correctly, and/or some config files fmtutil … are missing or at the wrong place .:frowning:

A possible texfile would be:

\documentclasss{article}

\begin{document}
Hello, World!
\end{document}

Just write it as plain text into a file example.tex and run latex example.tex .
Before the updates all things worked fine.

Thx again

Chris

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On 2013-08-17 15:26, chba wrote:
>
> nrickert;2579764 Wrote:
>> I just tried. It is working fine for me.
>>
>> Check whether you have a disk partition that is full. Maybe there
>> wasn’t space to build the database to find tex components.
>
> My Partition has definitvely more than enough free space. Is there
> another command similar to texhash or mktexlsr to execute. It seems like
> some paths are not set correctly, and/or some config files fmtutil …
> are missing or at the wrong place .:frowning:
>
>
> A possible texfile would be:
>
> \documentclasss{article}
>
> \begin{document}
> Hello, World!
> \end{document}
>
> Just write it as plain text into a file example.tex and run latex
> example.tex .
> Before the updates all things worked fine.


> File example.tex saved
> cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/latex> latex example.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/TeX Live for SUSE Linux)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./example.tex
> LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
> Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
> rman-x-2011-07-01, ngerman-x-2011-07-01, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi
> c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
> h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi, finnis
> h, french, friulan, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, h
> ungarian, icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, ma
> rathi, oriya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian,
> kurmanji, lao, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nyn
> orsk, polish, portuguese, romanian, romansh, russian, sanskrit, serbian, serbia
> nc, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorb
> ian, welsh, loaded.
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.1 \documentclasss
>                    {article}
> ? ^C! Interruption.
> <to be read again>
>                    {
> l.1 \documentclasss{
>                     article}
> ? ^C^C^CTerminated
> cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/latex>
> cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/latex> cat example.tex
> \documentclasss{article}
>
> \begin{document}
> Hello, World!
> \end{document}
> cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/latex>

I had to kill latex to exit.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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I had tested with a more complicated tex source file than that.

However, I retested with your file. And it failed:


! Undefined control sequence.
l.1 \documentclasss
                   {article}

However, once I fixed the spelling mistake, it worked.


(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
No file example.aux.
[1] (./example.aux) )
Output written on example.dvi (1 page, 232 bytes).
Transcript written on example.log.

(and no, I am not suggesting that the problem you are having is due to a spelling mistake).

(added in edit): I’ll add that my test is after applying yesterday’s latex patch. I don’t think I used latex between the first and the second of the two recent patches.

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Sorry for the spelling mistake,
\documentclass should have only two instead of three s .

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On 2013-08-17 16:56, chba wrote:
>
> Sorry for the spelling mistake,
> \documentclass should have only two instead of three s .

Ah! Ok, with that change it compiles correctly and I can display the
resulting dvi.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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I guess I found the reason. I have explained it in detail in

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834278

The short version: mktex group was missing in my /etc/groups . A bug in the rpm preinstall scripts prevented that it was automatically created. This should not happen in updates for a production version, if you are asking me.

Thanx for you help guys!