[bug-notifications] [texlive_latex_base 0005091]: pdflatex doesn't seem to recognize .tex document

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5091 
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Reported By:                blindpassenger
Assigned To:                pfelecan
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Project:                    texlive_latex_base
Issue ID:                   5091
Category:                   
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2013-07-12 11:00 CEST
Last Modified:              2013-07-12 17:36 CEST
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Summary:                    pdflatex doesn't seem to recognize .tex document
Description: 
When trying to open a .tex file with pdflatex we are getting an error
message. It looks like pdflatex doesn't recognize the .tex file, because it
says that "\begin{document}" is missing. This is however not true. This is
an excerpt from the tex document:

\setlength{\headrulewidth}{0.0pt}
\setlength{\footrulewidth}{0.0pt}
\begin{document}
\parbox[t]{9cm}{{\bf To:} \parbox[t]{8.0cm} {

Here is how we execute pdflatex:

pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction batchmode <fullFilename>



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 (0010496) pfelecan (manager) - 2013-07-12 17:36
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5091#c10496 
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After trying to generate the document I obtained the same result as your
developer. As I used extensively the TeXLive packages on Solaris, I tried
to generate the document on a Debian Testing with the same strain of
TeXLive and the results are the same (which can be seen in the attached
testfile.log). Consequently, I think that the issue is with the source
file, probably in roaming.sty but I'm not sure and not having the time to
analyze further I let this as an exercise for your developer...