Neal Lester wrote:

At 10:38 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote:

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On 5/26/06, Neal Lester wrote:

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At 09:17 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote:

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This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the loop at line 262.

Placing

puts f

below line 266 ( f.gsub(...) do

prints:

$TEXROOT/texmf/{-local,}/web2c/texmf.cnf

(over and over again)

Mine doesn't seem to enter this loop -- nothing is printed. The above line looks like the entry from texsetup with an extra "/":

set TEXMFCNF=%TEXPATH%texmf{-local,}/web2c

What I did is copy setuptex to /etc/profile.d/setuptex.sh and then hard coded the value of TEXROOT in setuptex.sh instead of having the script set it from the command line argument.

echo $TEXMFCNF prints $TEXROOT/texmf{-local,}/web2c

i'm puzzled because the loop you mentioned is not supposed to be entered unless you run texmfstart as a kpseserver do you use the latest versions of texmfstart etc? Hans -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------