From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13858 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: TeX Live 2003 miseries. Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 02:43:39 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031016024143.02e31668@server-1> References: <200310151853.10469.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066265987 13763 80.91.224.253 (16 Oct 2003 00:59:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:59:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Oct 16 02:59:45 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9wUT-0002U7-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 02:59:45 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77B110B25; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 02:59:43 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D66810B25 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 02:46:22 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h9G0k8A09807 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 02:46:08 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 3A3E72345A; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 02:46:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13ABB23458 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:46:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <200310151853.10469.john@wexfordpress.com> Original-References: <200310151853.10469.john@wexfordpress.com> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13858 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13858 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