On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Mark Roberts wrote:
> After a standard install of texlive in Debian, 'tex' and 'pdftex' take
> minutes to complete. Not just the first time. Every invocation of
> 'tex' takes minutes, even when the source-file contains only the
> single command "\bye".
Is your $HOME on NFS?
Do you have environmental variables set?
Can you run
echo "\bye" >bla.tex
tex -kpathsea-debug=-1 bla.tex >bla.debug 2>&1
and send us the output of bla.debug (compressed!)
We had similar cases where all of the hard disk was searched or all
of $HOME which was on NFS.
Best wishes
Norbert
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