Hi.
Recently I suffered a disk crash and have been getting lots of 'Overfull hbox' warnings and text from one frame running over to the next while previously these words were being hyphenated across lines. Some warnings are very large, such as:
Overfull \hbox (27.59291pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 2--3
I run Debian Linux and in the crisis lost my /etc directory which contains lots of the tex .cnf files.
I have used
apt-get --reinstall install
for lots of the packages (texlive-latex-extra, tex-common, texlive-common, texlive-latex-base, texlive-pictures, texlive-latex-recommended) but problem still remains.
After some searches and success earlier this week (I have experienced similar problems since copying the etc directory from another machine to this), I had some success with these commands
UCF_FORCE_CONFFMISS=yes dpkg -i --force-confmiss tex-common_1.11.3_all.deb
which I repeated for the above and following packages:
texlive-common
texlive-base-bin
texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-extra
texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-pictures
This has stopped me getting errors about the .cnf files anymore.
I am not attaching a minimum working example as I do not think it is the tex files that are the problem, it is my setup. Does anyone know which files might have gone awry for latex to stop hyphenating lines like this? I cannot find any examples in my document where the lines are now being properly hyphenated.
Here is my attempt at a minimum working example, which gives me the error:
I have attached the .log also.
Many thanks for any help and assistance.
dicky.
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Re: Overfull hbox more common since disk crash
Fixed it.
Removed as many tex and texlive packages as I could find.
Got a problem with lmodern:
/etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints: Unable to open, or empty
so I downloaded .deb file for lmodern, extracted the lmodern.hints file to /etc/defoma/hints and used apt to install all the tex and texlive packages again - seems I needed texlive-latex-extra for flowfram etc so when I had got that too I was done.
Nightmare.
dicky
Removed as many tex and texlive packages as I could find.
Got a problem with lmodern:
/etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints: Unable to open, or empty
so I downloaded .deb file for lmodern, extracted the lmodern.hints file to /etc/defoma/hints and used apt to install all the tex and texlive packages again - seems I needed texlive-latex-extra for flowfram etc so when I had got that too I was done.
Nightmare.
dicky