Installation issue with TeX Live 2023 on Linux Mint

[Yassine Mrabet]

Dear all,

I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped me out on
this mailing list in debugging my fresh TeX Live 2023 installation.
As expressed in my first post, I had been trying to install the newest
version of TeX Live on another partition, as my root partition was out of
space. I tried numerous things to decipher the origin of the "execution
slowness" issue that I was experiencing, but unfortunately, I was not able
to resolve it. However, thanks to your suggestions, and after
execution of commands in the Norbert message, I was able to generate a pdf.
After generating all formats (taking one night), the output is so huge that
I decided to place it in a repository :
https://github.com/yassineMrabet/texlive2023_outputs
As a result the 'small2e.pdf' was generated after 30 minutes which is not
horrible :D

Anyway, I finally decided to fallback to TeX Live 2021 minimal default and
get my LaTeX environment running again.

Best regards,

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:27 AM Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
wrote:

> Hi Yassine,
>
> your report is incomplete, as Lars said.
>
> It seems that you did not properly finish the installation, formats
> are premade during installation, and your log shows that they are made
> on first run.
>
> > A simple *pdflatex -shell-escape helloWorld.tex* takes hours to compile
>
> That is even more strange. The log you send is the format build, which
> might take a few min on a very slow and old computer, and definitely not
> *hours*.
>
> Also, the log does not show the actual compilation output:
>
> > ~$ pdflatex -shell-escape sample.tex
>
> ...
>
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023)
> (preloaded format=pdflatex)
> >  \write18 enabled.
> >
> > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
>
> Should not happen
>
> Then the format it build and saved:
>
> > mktexfmt [INFO]: log file copied to:
> /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.log
> > mktexfmt [INFO]:
> /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt installed.
> > mktexfmt [INFO]: disabled formats: 1
> > mktexfmt [INFO]: successfully rebuilt formats: 1
> > mktexfmt [INFO]: not selected formats: 53
> > mktexfmt [INFO]: total formats: 55
> > mktexfmt [INFO]: exiting with status 0
>
> That is even more strange as it seems that the fmtutil.cnf files was not
> properly installed.
>
> Then the tex run:
>
> > pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file
>
> Not good, and should not happen either.
>
> > ] (./sample.aux) ) </mypartition/texlive2023/t
> > exmf-dist/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/cmsy10.pk>
> > kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600
> tcrm1000
> >
> > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base
> > mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in
> precedence order):
> > mktexfmt:   /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> > mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing
> changes:
> > mktexfmt:   /home/username/.texlive2023/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>
> In fact there should be another in $TEXMFSYSCONFIG
>
> It cannot find hte basic fonts, which is strange.
> So it tries to builds the fonts from metafont sources.
> But metafont format is also not build ...
>
>
> Can you show the content of
>         /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> ?
>
> I am pretty sure that your installation was interrupted or terminated,
> and you have a completely messed up installation.
>
> After having copied the content of the above file into the email, you
> can try
>         mktexlsr
>         tlmgr generate _fmtutil
>         tlmgr generate _updmap
>         updmap-sys
>         fmtutil-sys --all
> that hopefully generates all formats and necessary support files.
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
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