texlive-2009 pdflatex doesn't work (sometimes)

[Neal Becker]

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*