Re: TeX Live 2003 miseries.

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:11, George N. White III wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Culleton wrote:
> > I installed the latest version of TeXLive 2003 (the so-called
> > demo version) and did the fmtutil and texhash bit.  When I ran a
> > job for a customer, texexec hung up at the point where a graphic
> > was being loaded. So I went back to last year's texlive in a
> > terrible hurry. That worked fine.
>
> What platform?  
Slackware 9.1
I reinstalled 2002 TeXlive to get my customer's job out the door. 
That worked. Then I downloaded the latest Context zip file. That 
didn't work for some reason. Fmtutil failed on pdftex and pdfetex. 
Then I reinstalled TeXLive 2003, the only change being that I did not 
first wipe out the web2c directory. Now TeXlive seems to work. As you 
may have noticed, the TeXlive installation program doesn't wipe out 
an existing web2c.  Just why retaining an old web2c directory helps 
things along I don't know. 
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John Culleton
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