[tex-live] margins disappear in one distribution, not in another

[Gunther Jansen]

Dear all,

I encountered a curious issue today. While I am writing a report (in article 
style), my pdftex compilation yielded a strange pdf without margins and 
slightly differently sized pages. In other words, a really broken layout. The 
same code had worked before, though, so I did not understand where it came 
from. I write and compile my source files from vim with latex suite via pdftex 
(in SLED 11). However, if I transfer the *exact* same source code to my laptop 
with the same setup, it compiles fine, no problems with margins or page size. 
I next removed texlive entirely and installed it again, again to no avail. 
Where could this be symptomatic of? 


Here is the code:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,fancyhdr}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,format=plain,width=10cm,labelfont=bf,up,textfont=it,up]
{caption}

\author{Gunther Jansen}
\date{}
\title{Interim report 2}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{Gunther Jansen}
\chead{report}
\rfoot{\thepage}
\rhead{}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

couple of sections with pure text
one figure imported as pdf

\end{document}