Comment 13 for bug 42475

I tried the trick in juliens seconds mail. That fixed the "No hyphenation patterns were loaded" problem but long words are still not broken.
As an example, try to compile and view the test document, foo.tex, I attached. The looong word is not broken in my system.

BTW: I found out that I had to remove the dir
    ~/.tetex-var
in order to get rid of the error message.

Also, during the config file procciing after I exitted the editor, some error messages was displayed. These are related to pdflatex, however, so I guess these are not relevant for this problem:

Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' failed

###############################################################################
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /var/lib/texmf/web2c
for details.
###############################################################################

This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
`pdfetex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' failed
`pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' failed

Warning: fmtutil was run as root; fmtutil-sys was used instead.
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