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

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The following issue has been REOPENED. 
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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:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2013-07-12 11:00 CEST
Last Modified:              2013-07-12 19:07 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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 (0010498) blindpassenger (reporter) - 2013-07-12 19:07
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5091#c10498 
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The interesting thing is that we don't have this issue on another Solaris
box on that we work for years and which runs an older version of pdflatex.
Everything works fine there which leads us to the conclusion that the
problem lies in the version of pdflatex. We don't believe that the issue is
the source file. Or were there any major changes in the versions that
require the source files to be different?

We worked on the other box for years without a problem and it still runs
the blastwave repository. The new box runs the opencsw repository and
pdflatex is not working there. Without it working we can not upgrade the
old box to the opencsw repository.

This is the version that runs on the other box were everything is running:

# /opt/csw/bin/pdflatex -v
pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
kpathsea version 3.5.4
Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfeTeX copyright and
the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files
named COPYING and the pdfeTeX source.
Primary author of pdfeTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh
(pdfTeX).
Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.

This is the version that runs on the box that is not working:

# /opt/csw/bin/pdflatex -v
pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/OpenCSW)
kpathsea version 6.1.0
Copyright 2012 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh
(pdfTeX).
Compiled with libpng 1.5.13; using libpng 1.5.13
Compiled with zlib 1.2.7; using zlib 1.2.3
Compiled with xpdf version 3.03