On upgrade to 12.10, my pdflatex documents come out in A4 size, not letter

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

I don't suppose I've filed the bug in the right package, but:

Under 12.04, my latex documents were compiled correctly for my region: into letter paper.

After upgrade to 12.10, they are coming out as A4.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: texlive 2012.20120611-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 26 09:44:36 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-03 (388 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: texlive-base
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-23 (3 days ago)

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

Hi Christopher

with TeX Live 2012, tex etc honors the setting of paperconf. Please check that there you have letter selected!

Norbert

(how happy one could be if letter just simply disappeared)
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[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

/usr/bin/paperconf

gives me:

letter

But that's not what I get when I use the "geometry" package without specifying a paper size.

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

On Mo, 19 Nov 2012, Christopher Barrington-Leigh wrote:
> /usr/bin/paperconf
>
> gives me:
>
> letter
>
> But that's not what I get when I use the "geometry" package without
> specifying a paper size.

Do you have a geometry.cfg hanging around?

Run one document (Hellow World one) with -recorder and send the .fls file

Best wishes

Norbert
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`We've got to find out what people want from fire, how
they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them.'
The crowd were tense. They were expecting something
wonderful from Ford.
`Stick it up your nose,' he said.
`Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know,'
insisted the girl, `Do people want fire that can be fitted
nasally?'
                 --- Ford "debating" what to do with fire with a marketing
                 --- girl.
                 --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

$ locate geometry.cfg
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/geometry/geometry.cfg
/usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-base-doc/latex/geometry/geometry.cfg

Neither of those has anything uncommented.

tmp1.tex is:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\begin{document}

iuop
\end{document}

$ pdflatex -recorder tmp1
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
  restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./tmp1.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, fr
ench, basque, loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifvtex.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
(/home/cpbl/texmf/tex/maybeMissing/geometry/geometry.cfg)) (./tmp1.aux)
*geometry* driver: auto-detecting
*geometry* detected driver: pdftex
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./tmp1.aux)
)</usr/shar
e/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on tmp1.pdf (1 page, 10916 bytes).
Transcript written on tmp1.log.

The output tmp1.pdf is in A4 size.

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Norbert Preining wrote:

> On Mo, 19 Nov 2012, Christopher Barrington-Leigh wrote:
>> /usr/bin/paperconf
>>
>> gives me:
>>
>> letter
>>
>> But that's not what I get when I use the "geometry" package without
>> specifying a paper size.
>
> Do you have a geometry.cfg hanging around?
>
> Run one document (Hellow World one) with -recorder and send the .fls
> file
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
> JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer
> DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> `We've got to find out what people want from fire, how
> they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them.'
> The crowd were tense. They were expecting something
> wonderful from Ford.
> `Stick it up your nose,' he said.
> `Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know,'
> insisted the girl, `Do people want fire that can be fitted
> nasally?'
> --- Ford "debating" what to do with fire with a marketing
> --- girl.
> --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
>
>

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

On Di, 20 Nov 2012, Christopher Barrington-Leigh wrote:
> $ pdflatex -recorder tmp1

From your run ..

> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
> restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./tmp1.tex
> LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
> Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
> nohyphenation, fr
> ench, basque, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifvtex.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
> (/home/cpbl/texmf/tex/maybeMissing/geometry/geometry.cfg)) (./tmp1.aux)
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

what does this file say? Maybe by chance something about A4???

I tried it on my computer and the documents come out in letter
without any problem.

Is it so hard to read the output?

Bug can be closed, misconfiguration of the user.

Best wishes

Norbert
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FORD Tell me Arthur...
ARTHUR Yes?
FORD This boulder we're stuck under, how big would you say it was? Roughly?
ARTHUR Oh, about the size of Coventry Cathedral.
FORD Do you think we could move it? (Arthur doesn't reply) Just asking.
                 --- Ford and Arthur in a tricky situation, Fit the Eighth.
                 --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

>> (/home/cpbl/texmf/tex/maybeMissing/geometry/geometry.cfg)) (./tmp1.aux)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> what does this file say? Maybe by chance something about A4???

> Is it so hard to read the output?

Insult warranted.

I did a "locate" on geometry.cfg, found that file, and would have sworn I
deleted it. Afterwards, I retried my test and found the same problem.

And yes, I should have read what I sent you. I'm used to not understanding
debug files that smart people request.

Thanks and apologies.
c