From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3224 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2012 18:26:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 3212 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jul 2012 18:26:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:25:59 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SsHtk-0000x6-0M for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:25:56 +0200 Received: from pd9eb42a1.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.235.66.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:25:56 +0200 Received: from Stromeko by pd9eb42a1.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:25:56 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: TeX now vs. Tex in legacy version Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:26:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87a9yub87s.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <5008F43C.1010001@bonhard.uklinux.net> <5009352E.1080604@cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) 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/msg00448.txt.bz2 Ken Brown writes: > On 7/20/2012 2:01 AM, Fergus wrote: >> 1. Currently, having recently upgraded, I can't use latex: >> $ latex a8.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) > > It looks like something went wrong with your installation of > texlive-collection-latex. See This happened to me as well when first upgrading from teTeX to TeXlive. The error message indicates that a different binary produced the format file than the binary that is now trying to use it. When this happens after upgrading it seems to be related to a symlink not pointing to where it should (in this case there seems to be a latex.exe file where there should be a symlink from latex->pdftex.exe). Since re-installing the whole of TeXlive takes so much time I just re-linked everything and ran the script that creates the format files. I think the fact that some of these links are created from texconfig may be the source of the problem, maybe you could check if the installation really cleans all symlinks (and unexpected executables where a symlink should be installed) before creating the formats. The executables generally seem to come from the updated distribution, so I think it may just be an interaction between some of the postinstall scripts. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- 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