From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17902 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2012 19:54:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 17894 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jul 2012 19:54:15 -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; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:54:03 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SrDqK-0005JV-Qo for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:54:00 +0200 Received: from pd9eb5844.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.235.88.68]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:54:00 +0200 Received: from Stromeko by pd9eb5844.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:54:00 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: latex error: latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87pq7uw4dw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <5005B39B.502@ucar.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/msg00344.txt.bz2 Keith Lindsay writes: > 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) My crystal ball tells me that most likely pdftex.exe is no longer a link to latex.exe... Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra -- 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