latex problems

[wrobell]

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 23:33 +0100, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> In default installation latex eats all available memory when trying to compile 
> a simple file. Issuing these two commands works around the problem:
> $ sudo ln -s /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt
> $ sudo ln -s /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt
> Why are those two files in /var/... when latex and pdflatex command search for 
> them in /usr/...?

can you send me document which triggers problem (on priv, pls)?

  wrobell <wrobell at pld-linux.org>