texlive-2009 pdflatex doesn't work (sometimes)

[José Matos]

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

-- 
José Abílio