[tex-live] texconfig / texmf.cnf incompatibility in TeXLive 2004?

[Thomas Esser]

> Error: kpsewhich cannot find config file of pdftex (pdftex.cfg) 
...
> I am probably missing something obvious here, and would really 
> appreciate if somebody 
> more knowledgeable than I (i.e, almost anybody :-) would help me figure 
> out what's going on. 

The "release" that you have there is inconsistent/buggy. Maybe, you can
get a working version from taking the scripts from teTeX-beta (2.96).

Thomas