loss of pdflatex

[Dan Ports]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:18:52AM -0400, Emden R. Gansner wrote:
> If I run kpsewhich graphics.cfg, there is no output and its exit status 
> is 1.
> If I run as root, it finds
>   /opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/graphics.cfg

This one has me stumped. I'm not sure why it would work only as root.

You might try kpsewhich --debug 32 graphics.cfg to see if there are any
permissions problems or the like, or compare the output of kpsepath as
root and not.

Also, any chance you have some environment variables like TEXINPUTS
customized in your environment but not root's?

Dan

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