From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15670 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2012 19:50:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 15660 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jul 2012 19:50:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from post2.cgd.ucar.edu (HELO post2.cgd.ucar.edu) (128.117.21.230) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:50:13 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cgdisleroyale.cgd.ucar.edu [128.117.22.109]) by post2.cgd.ucar.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981BCBF for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:50:12 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <5005C1F4.1000609@ucar.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:50:00 -0000 From: Keith Lindsay User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 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=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00343.txt.bz2 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 -- 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