texlive-2009 pdflatex doesn't work (sometimes)

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:50 +0000, José Matos wrote: 
> On Sunday 24 January 2010 12:18:23 Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> > 2010/1/23 Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu>:
> > >        $ pdflatex simple.tex
> > >        This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009)
> > > 
> > >        kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
> > >        I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
> > 
> > In a slightly related issue, I found that after I did the most recent
> > updates from texlive (yesterday), xelatex and bibtex segfaulted
> > immediately. "yum reinstall texlive-xetex* texlive-bibtex*" seems to
> > have fixed it though ...
> 
> After updating I get this:
> 
> $ bibtex
> bibtex: Symbol `kpse_def_inst' has different size in shared object, consider 
> re-linking
> bibtex: Need exactly one file argument.
> Try `bibtex --help' for more information.
> 
> Reinstalling texlive-bibtex as you suggested fixed the issue:
> 
> $ bibtex
> bibtex: Need exactly one file argument.
> Try `bibtex --help' for more information.
> 
> > MEF

Can't say I've seen any of these problems (except my original one), but
I did notice that after reinstall, I get various complaints about
consistency of files cached in $HOME/.texlive-2009/.  Deleting the
directory seems to solve those.

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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