[tex-live] _very_ slow TeX compilation :(

[Patrick Ringl]

Yea, he did. Abd I also got him the right way tho.

Anyway, the solution did help - by chance I messed up my user's homedir 
(at the initial adduser that is) which caused all this trouble.

Thanks again!


regards,
Patrick


Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:54:04PM +0000, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>   
>> Norbert Preining wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Please set your HOME to
>>> 	HOME=/home/pat
>>> (no leading slash).
>>>       
>> As a non-Unix user, I am confused : surely what you
>> have just suggested that HOME be set to /does/ have
>> a leading slash, does it not ?
>>     
>
> He probably meant a trailing slash:
>
>     /home/user
>
> instead of
>
>     /home/user/
>
> Hauke
>