Hi Simon, thanks for your response... What I see from the strace log is that Latex keeps searching all my home directory structure looking for texmf directory... I don't see that the /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf is read at any time.
Below is an edited output from strace (the original had more then 1 million lines) Thanks, -- latex, gv very slow, kpathsea related problem https://launchpad.net/bugs/57589 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
