On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 19:39 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > 2015-02-12 14:28 GMT+01:00, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:24:40 +0100 > > Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I've been using LaTeX on a fully updated Fedora 21, but now suddenly > >> even TeXing the simplest plain TeX file produces this: > >> > >> warning: kpathsea: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/ls-R: No usable > >> entries in ls-R. > >> warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. > > > > // Rule number one for anything TeX-related: before you proceed, make > > sure that you understand what is going on. ;-) // > > Yep, that's why I never proceed :-) > > > The warning messages are pretty clear: kpathsea is telling you that the > > ls-R database is empty or corrupted, and that it should be regenerated. > > It also suggests that you look into the manual about how to regenerate > > the database. > > > > The easiest way to find the relevant man page is this: > > > > $ apropos ls-R > > mktexlsr (1) - create ls-R databases > > texhash (1) - create ls-R databases > > > > These two man pages actually both point to the mktexlsr man page, which > > tells you how to use it to regenerate the ls-R database. In short, you > > need to log in as root, and invoke mktexlsr with no arguments, like > > this: > > > > # mktexlsr > > mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/ls-R... > > mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R... > > mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texlive/texmf-local///ls-R... > > mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texlive/texmf-var/ls-R... > > mktexlsr: Done. > > > > Hopefully that should regenerate the ls-R database on your system, > > making kpathsea happy. > > > > By the way, the ls-R database is the list of full paths of all > > TeX-related files. A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away it used > > to be generated manually by executing the command "ls -R" for a given > > directory and putting the result in the (creatively named) ls-R file, > > which kpathsea could search through and inform TeX where in the > > directory tree it can find the file it needs. Today, the database is > > generated by the elaborate bash script (do a "less /usr/bin/mktexlsr" > > to see the details), but it still boils down to going to the > > appropriate directory and taking the output of "ls -R". > > > > Finally, all four ls-R databases which I have above are ASCII files, > > literally the output of "ls -R" for the appropriate directory, with a > > couple of lines appended at the beginning. So the fact that you have > > binary files there smells to me like something being very wrong with > > your files, probably due to the corrupted filesystem you had to deal > > with before. > > Thanks for all this information. I ended up following another > Fedoran's suggestion, and erased/reinstalled all texlive packages. > (Plain dnf reinstall, which I had tried before, was not enough.) For future reference, a handy tool for working with the TeXLive setup is texconfig (for user's personal setup) and texconfig-sys (for system-wide setup). It has a REHASH option for rebuilding the ls-R database as well as options for paper type in TeX, xdvi, and dvips, and other setup matters. > > Andras > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
