At 00:53 16/10/2003, you 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
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:11, George N. White III wrote: 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