At last I decided to replace tetex-3.0_p1-r6.ebuild by texlive-2008 (I hesitated because I just cannot afford not to have a working LaTeX on my laptop, I use it every day). I followed http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml, and things seem mostly OK. But /etc/texmf/dvips.d/00texlive-core-config.ps, and hence /etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps, contains only the following text: Error: /undefined in m Operand stack: --nostringval-- Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1888 2 3 %oparray_pop 1887 2 3 %oparray_pop 1871 2 3 %oparray_pop 1755 2 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1201/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:73/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 392 instead of something reasonable. And hence I have no working dvips :-( How can I get a usable 00texlive-core-config.ps? I really need a working dvips rather urgently. If this can help, here is my gdh-zimmer201 ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc23 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-tuxonice-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-tuxonice-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1400MHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r8, 2.5.4-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rz.tu-bs.de/pub/mirror/ftp.gentoo.org/gentoo-distfiles/" LANG="ru_RU.koi8r" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/layman/lisp /usr/local/layman/science /usr/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb blas bluetooth boehm-gc branding browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg fftw firefox fltk fortran gd gdbm gif gmp gnome gpm gsl gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick isdnlog jpeg kde lapack latex ldap leim libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap mule ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session speex spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd tetex tiff tk truetype umfpack unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x86 xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
I just noticed, my laptop has the same contents in there...for my desktop I don't know (I am not at home), but dvips works there if I remember correctly.
This is not a bug! The files 00texlive-core-config.ps and config.ps contain the correct text! This is an effect of the command 'less': it sees the extension .ps and tries to be smart by running ghostscript. Use 'more' (or just 'cat'). Really, 'less' can be annoying sometimes (it is also too smart with .html files).
