On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:10:24AM -0500, anave at macalester.edu wrote: > Anyone good at troubleshooting Latex? I've got a really weird problem with > dvips and mktexpk. I've got it narrowed > down to mktexdir (which mktexpk calls), which seems to fail for no reason. > I've checked write privs many times, and I have reinstalled Latex several > times, both from binaries and RPMs. If someone has an idea, I'd sure be > glad to hear it. Still haven't seen any replies on this one, so I thought I'd try to get some more info from you. I use LaTeX on Solaris and Debian and the problem your having doesn't really sound familar. So what happens exactly? You try to dvips a dvi file and dvips crashes while calling mktexdir? I assume that the dvi file looks fine under xdvi. So what are the error messages that you are getting? What command line are you calling dvips with? Does dvips work with any LaTeX files, or is it just one particular file that's giving you problems? What style are you using? What are the permissions on the directory that mktexdir seems to be dying at? Anyway, whatever info you can give might help us figure out what's going on. -- Jim Crumley | crumley at belka.space.umn.edu | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org