From: Keith Lindsay <klindsay@ucar.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: latex error: latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5005C1F4.1000609@ucar.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5005B39B.502@ucar.edu>
On 7/17/2012 12:48 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)
>
> I've attached the output from running "cygcheck -svr".
>
> I appreciate any suggestions for what I can do to resolve this.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith Lindsay
Hi,
Based on Ken's response, I reinstalled texlive-collection-latex and no
longer get the error message from above. I'm inferring that something
went wrong with the previous install and that the reinstall corrected
the problem.
Keith
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-17 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-17 18:49 Keith Lindsay
2012-07-17 19:05 ` Ken Brown
2012-07-17 19:50 ` Keith Lindsay [this message]
2012-07-17 19:54 ` Achim Gratz
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