TexLive doesn't read my ~/texmf after the upgrading to 2016

navigium · 12-02-2016, 07:41 AM

Hey all,

I'm kind of lost here. I upgraded TexLive to the 2016 version from SlackBuilds. Now it refuses to read my custom .sty and .cls files in ~/texmf/tex/latex.

I checked my environment: $TEXMFHOME isn't set and therefor should default to ~/texmf. I also tried to explicitly set $TEXMFHOME, which didn't solve the problem.

Further I tried to copy the .cls and .sty files to /usr/share/texmf-local, running rehash and compiling the document. No change here.

Any ideas what I'm missing here. These are the environment variables that are relevant to TeX. I didn't set TEXMFCACHE but unsetting it doesn't help.

Code:

$ env | grep TEX
TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf-dist
TEXMFCACHE=/home/<myuser>/.texmf-cache
TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/share/texmf-local
TEXMFHOME=/home/<myuser>/texmf

Whenever I try to compile a Latex-File using a custom class or style file, I get the following error:

Code:

! LaTeX Error: File `<mycustomfile>.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:

aragorn2101 · 12-03-2016, 04:00 AM

Hi,

Maybe the cache was not updated properly, try

Code:

texhash ~/texmf

navigium · 12-03-2016, 04:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aragorn2101

Hi,

Maybe the cache was not updated properly, try

Code:

texhash ~/texmf

I already tried this, it doesn't help. With TexLive 2015 it wasn't even required to run texhash over TEXMFHOME as long as you kept the files in the correct folders. I wasn't able to find any info that this changed in the 2016 version.

franzen · 12-03-2016, 04:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by navigium

I already tried this, it doesn't help. With TexLive 2015 it wasn't even required to run texhash over TEXMFHOME as long as you kept the files in the correct folders. I wasn't able to find any info that this changed in the 2016 version.

What is your output from

Code:

kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME

?

sombragris · 12-05-2016, 01:42 PM

I'm having similar problems. TexLive now refuses to recognize a font I had installed several years ago and it is in my systemwide $TEXMFLOCAL path (/usr/share/texmf-local/). THis is even despite I ran texhash several times.

@franzen by the way, running the command you suggest in my system gaves the output ~/texmf/. I have my local user-specific config in ~/.texmf/. How could I fix this?

Thanks!

sombragris · 12-05-2016, 02:23 PM

Even more: texlive does not read the contents of the $TEXMFLOCAL directory.

I even went as far as manually editing /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg and add the relevant font map. At the next updmap-sys run, it generated an error message:

Code:

root:/home/eduardo]# updmap-sys
updmap will read the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order):
  /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
updmap may write changes to the following updmap.cfg file:
  /usr/share/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
dvips output dir: "/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap"
pdftex output dir: "/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap"
dvipdfmx output dir: "/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap"
updmap [ERROR]: The following map file(s) couldn't be found:
updmap [ERROR]:         myfontfile.map (in /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg)
updmap [ERROR]: Did you run mktexlsr?

        You can disable non-existent map entries using the option
          --syncwithtrees.

The problem is, that .map file is on $TEXMFLOCAL, and I did run mktexlsr several times. Even more: the relevant directory where the .map file is stored has its relevant ls-R file with a timestamp of today.

If you could give any help in fixing this I'd be very grateful.

franzen · 12-05-2016, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sombragris

I'm having similar problems. TexLive now refuses to recognize a font I had installed several years ago and it is in my systemwide $TEXMFLOCAL path (/usr/share/texmf-local/).

What do you mean with "now"? Did it work with texlive2016 before the last update?

Quote:

@franzen by the way, running the command you suggest in my system gaves the output ~/texmf/. I have my local user-specific config in ~/.texmf/. How could I fix this?

The global runtime path configuration file for kpathsea is
/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf
Put your changes -- and only your changes, not an entire copy! -- in
/usr/share/texmf.cnf

sombragris · 12-05-2016, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by franzen

What do you mean with "now"? Did it work with texlive2016 before the last update?

I'm not certain about the last update, but IIRC it worked with at least the next to last. (that is, I think it was the last one you offered directly via LQ).

sombragris · 12-05-2016, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by franzen

The global runtime path configuration file for kpathsea is
/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf

Now, this is odd.

in the global /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf is this:

Code:

TEXMFROOT = $SELFAUTODIR/share

[snip]

% The main tree of distributed packages and programs:
TEXMFDIST = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-dist

[snip]

% Local additions to the distribution trees.
TEXMFLOCAL = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-local

All the variables are OK; they have the values expected from them. However, this one:

Code:

TEXMFLOCAL = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-local

is directly not honored by TeX; and maybe other paths aren't, either.

I don't have any custom texmf.cnf files anywhere.

sombragris · 12-05-2016, 05:31 PM

To be more specific: my map file is correctly located at /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvips (i.e., $TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/map/dvips) but it is not picked up by updmap-sys.

I also see that the ls-R corresponding to the $TEXMFLOCAL directory correctly picks my map file. But somehow updmap fails to pick it.

navigium · 12-05-2016, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by franzen

What is your output from

Code:

kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME

?

I wasn't able to check this earlier since I didn't have the machine with me. The output looks correct to me:

Code:

& kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME
/home/<my user>/texmf

I'm really lost here as it worked with the previous version. Maybe I should try to downgrade. Is there a way to access previous versions of Slackbuilds?

franzen · 12-06-2016, 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by navigium

I'm really lost here as it worked with the previous version. Maybe I should try to downgrade. Is there a way to access previous versions of Slackbuilds?

There's no official support to downgrade, you may go through slackbuild.org's cgit.
texlive2015 was never part of SBo, texlive2014 was there before.
I'll create a testcase to reproduce your issue, but i don't know if i find time today ...

navigium · 12-06-2016, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by franzen

There's no official support to downgrade, you may go through slackbuild.org's cgit.
texlive2015 was never part of SBo, texlive2014 was there before.
I'll create a testcase to reproduce your issue, but i don't know if i find time today ...

Honestly, I'm not sure whether you'll be able to reproduce my problem. I've got two more or less identical Slackware 14.2 installs and it only happens on one box. I couldn't figure out the difference yet.

franzen · 12-06-2016, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by navigium

Honestly, I'm not sure whether you'll be able to reproduce my problem. I've got two more or less identical Slackware 14.2 installs and it only happens on one box. I couldn't figure out the difference yet.

Maybe the arch-wiki about texlive can help.
If nothing helps, i suggest to save you texlive-config/styles/whatever, then

Code:

removepkg /var/log/packages/tetex*
removepkg /var/log/packages/texlive*
rm -rf /usr/share/texmf*
rm -rf /home/<my user>/texlive*
rm -rf /home/<my user>/.tex*
unset TEXMF

then install texlive2016 again, and put back in your files and test step-by-step.

navigium · 12-07-2016, 01:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by franzen

Maybe the arch-wiki about texlive can help.
If nothing helps, i suggest to save you texlive-config/styles/whatever, then

Code:

removepkg /var/log/packages/tetex*
removepkg /var/log/packages/texlive*
rm -rf /usr/share/texmf*
rm -rf /home/<my user>/texlive*
rm -rf /home/<my user>/.tex*
unset TEXMF

then install texlive2016 again, and put back in your files and test step-by-step.

Thank you, this finally solved the problem. I did a reinstall before but obviously I didn't delete all the files removepkg left out.