[tex-live] Unable to Compile -- Using TexLive and TexStudio

[Fender, Kai]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to LaTeX, and I'm having some trouble getting it up and
running on my computer. I tried asking for some help on TeX Stack Exchange,
where it was recommended I ask for help here. Any help I can get is much
appreciated. Here's my issue:

I just installed TeX Live and TeXstudio 2.10.4 on my computer (which is
running Windows 8). In TeXstudio, any time I try to compile a document, I
receive the following error message:

Could not start Build & View:PdfLaTeX:
pdflatex.exe -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "testFile".tex

I've seen it suggested in many forums to go into in the Options> Configure
TeXstudio> Commands> PdfLaTeX, then type the full path to pdflatex.exe.
I've tried this, and it gives the following error message:

Could not start Build & View:PdfLaTeX:
C:\texlive\2015\bin\win32\pdflatex.exe -synctex=1
-interaction=nonstopmode "testFile".tex

I also saw it suggested to put quotes around the path to pdflatex.exe. I
tried this, and received the same error message as above, but with quotes
around the path.

It was suggested that I try running pdflatex from a Dos command prompt.
When I do so, I receive the following message:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX)
(preloaded format=pdflatex)

restricted \write18 enabled.

Cannot get a temporary directory after five iterations ... sorry! at
c:\texlive\2015\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\fmtutil.pl line 334.

fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence
order):

fmtutil: c:/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing
changes:

fmtutil: c:/users/owner/.texlive2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

C:\texlive\2015\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:663: command failed with exit code
2:

perl.exe c:\texlive\2015\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\fmtutil.pl --byfmt
pdflatex

Running the command C:\texlive\2015\bin\win32\fmtutil.exe

I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!


Again, any help towards fixing this issue is much appreciated.

Thank you,

Kai Fender

[Akira Kakuto]

Dear Fender,

Post by Fender, Kai
Cannot get a temporary directory after five iterations ... sorry!

It seems that your $TEXMFVAR is not writable, I don't know why.

On the command line type

kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFVAR

and try to make a shown directory writable.

Best,
Akira Kakuto