5 Troubleshooting

What to do if kpsewhich or latex does not find your files?

• kpsewhich is the tool of choice to debug any problem. Unfortunately, kpsewhich outputs debug information to stderr, and the Windows console does not know how to redirect stderr to a file. So you will need to play with the 'pause' key until someone provides me with a better approach.
• assuming the installation has been done in c:/Local/TeX, check the following values:
  

  kpsewhich-expand-path$SELFAUTOPARENT	c:/Local/TeX
  kpsewhich-expand-path$TEXMF	c:/Local/TeX/texmf
  kpsewhich-expand-path$TEXMFCNF	.;c:/Local/TeX/texmf/web2c;
  	c:/Local/TeX/bin/win32;
  	c:/Local/TeX/bin;
  	c:/Local/TeX
  kpsewhich-expand-var$TEXINPUTS	.;c:/Local/TeX/texmf/tex//

• if you have other TeX-related values already set in your environment, please, remove them. They are overriding the ones in texmf.cnf.
• check the values from:
  

  kpsewhichcmr10.tfm	c:/Local/TeX/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr10.tfm
  kpsewhichlatex.fmt	c:/Local/TeX/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt

• at this point, if everything is correct, tex.exe and co. should work. If it is not the case, you will need to play with the -debug=n option from kpsewhich, and check back all the values. Try to identify and report the problem.