Installation issue with TeX Live 2023 on Linux Mint

[Norbert Preining]

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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