Re: TeX Live 2003 miseries.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 00:53 16/10/2003, you wrote:
>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.

Wipe out and set variables like the folowing (in a start up script), just 
to make sure that preinstalled tex's got lost:

TEXROOT=$1
export TEXROOT

TEXMFMAIN=$TEXROOT/texmf
TEXMFLOCAL=$TEXROOT/texmf-local
TEXMFFONTS=$TEXROOT/texmf-fonts
TEXMFPROJECT=$TEXROOT/texmf-project
TEXMFOS=$TEXROOT/texmf-linux
VARTEXMF=$TMP/texmf-var

export TEXMFMAIN
export TEXMFLOCAL
export TEXMFPROJECT
export TEXMFFONTS
export TEXMFOS
export VARTEXMF

PATH=$TEXMFOS/bin:$PATH
export PATH

HOMETEXMF=/nonexist
export HOMETEXMF

TEXMFCNF=$TEXROOT/texmf{-local,}/web2c
TEXMF='{$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'
TEXFORMATS=$TEXMFOS/web2c
TEXPOOL=$TEXFORMATS
MPPOOL=$TEXFORMATS

export TEXMFCNF
export TEXMF
export TEXFORMATS
export TEXPOOL
export MPPOOL

TEXINPUTS=
MPINPUTS=
MFINPUTS=

export TEXINPUTS
export MPINPUTS
export MFINPUTS