Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 18 Feb 2008, Nikos wrote: >> and waits there for hours. I tried to strace the executable and found >> that is scans recursively my home directory probably searching for >> something. This is quite unacceptable. A partial output of strace is: > > What is your > HOME > env variable? What is TEXMFHOME? > > We had similar problems because HOME had a terminal /, which made > TEXMFHOME=/path/to/home//texmf > and thus searches the full homedir. > > It is important that HOME does not have a terminal slash.
Thank you for your quick reply. Indeed this was the problem. regards, Nikos -- pdftex for some reason scans the whole home directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192877 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
