I have two F12 systems with texlive-2009 installed. On one of them, pdflatex works fine. On the other, I get this error:
$ 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'!
On the working system, pdflatex.fmt is in ${HOME}/.texlive2009/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt, but on the failing system, that file is missing.
Reinstalling and rerunning texconfig doesn't help.
Any idea what's going on?
TIA.
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
I have two F12 systems with texlive-2009 installed. On one of them, pdflatex works fine. On the other, I get this error:
$ 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'!
On the working system, pdflatex.fmt is in ${HOME}/.texlive2009/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt, but on the failing system, that file is missing.
Reinstalling and rerunning texconfig doesn't help.
Any idea what's going on?
TIA.
yum reinstall texlive*
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 19:18 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
I have two F12 systems with texlive-2009 installed. On one of them, pdflatex works fine. On the other, I get this error:
$ 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'!
On the working system, pdflatex.fmt is in ${HOME}/.texlive2009/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt, but on the failing system, that file is missing.
Reinstalling and rerunning texconfig doesn't help.
Any idea what's going on?
TIA.
yum reinstall texlive*
Wow! Now, why did that work but yum erase texlive (which removed all texlive* packages), yum install texlive (which resintalled them all) didn't?
2010/1/23 Matthew Saltzman mjs@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 ...
MEF
On Sunday 24 January 2010 12:18:23 Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
2010/1/23 Matthew Saltzman mjs@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
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@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.