From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16550 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2012 19:05:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 16537 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jul 2012 19:05:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from orchid.mail.cornell.edu (HELO orchid.mail.cornell.edu) (132.236.56.61) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:05:45 +0000 Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by orchid.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q6HJ5hdD002445 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:05:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [128.84.234.242] (dhcp242.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.242]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id q6HJ5iM7009731 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:05:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5005B78C.5010303@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:05:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: latex error: latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool References: <5005B39B.502@ucar.edu> In-Reply-To: <5005B39B.502@ucar.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Tue Jul 17 15:05:44 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00341.txt.bz2 On 7/17/2012 2:48 PM, Keith Lindsay wrote: > Hi, > > When I attempt to run latex on a simple .tex file (attached), I get the > following error message: > > $ latex polynom.tex > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Cygwin) > restricted \write18 enabled. > ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) The postinstall script for texlive-collection-latex should have created a new latex.fmt. The quick fix for your problem is to run /usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --all as administrator (or as whichever user did the Cygwin installation). But you should probably also make sure that the postinstall scripts have all run successfully, or else you could run into other problems. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple