Comment # 4 on bug 1159956 from Thomas K�nig

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #3)
> (In reply to Thomas K�nig from comment #2)
> > Created attachment 827000 [details]
> > Installed texinfo packages
> > 
> > Seems like my system is even more broken:
> > 
> 
> > 
> > Anything more I can do to debug this?
> 
> Simply become root and do
> 
>   /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force
> 
> also check texlive package versions installed
> 
>   zypper se --installed-only --details texlive | grep -v 2017

Nothing in that one:

$ zypper se --installed-only --details texlive | grep -v 2017
Repository-Daten werden geladen...
Installierte Pakete werden gelesen...

S | Name                                   | Typ   | Version                   
             | Arch   | Repository     
--+----------------------------------------+-------+-----------------------------------------+--------+----------------
$ 

The updated resulted in

$ sudo /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force
[sudo] Passwort f�r root: 
[ ]Updating TeX hash data base.
[-]Handle language.dat setups.
[\]Handle language.def setups.
[/]Handle language.dat.lua setups.
[-]Refresh TeX formats.
[\]Missing TeX formats.
[|]Updating TeX font mappings.
[|]Generate file database.
[|]Set MetaFont mode.
[-]Set XDvi paper size.
[/]Set dvips mode and paper size.

(quite some time doing "Missing TeX formats" and LaTeX worked after that:

$ latex foo.tex 
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/TeX Live for SUSE
Linux) (preloaded format=latex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./foo.tex
LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
Babel <3.10> and hyphenation patterns for 50 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
No file foo.aux.
[1] (./foo.aux) )
Output written on foo.dvi (1 page, 240 bytes).
Transcript written on foo.log.

Texinfo also ran after that.

Thanks a lot for the help! This certainly solved my problem.

The issue seems to have been some missing generated files after
installation; possibly some post-generation scripts were not
run correctly.

This may be due to the ordering of the packages I installed, or a
more general phenomenon.  Is there anything else I can do to help debug
this?