[Fedora TeX Live] Upgrade problem with texlive2011/dev on f14

[Martin Riener]

On 04/21/2011 06:24 AM, Peter Baker wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm running texlive2011/dev on f14 which until recentlyu has worked perfectly
> 
> # yum list texlive
> : : :
> Installed Packages
> texlive.i686                    2011-0.2.20110417.fc14                  @texlive
> texlive.x86_64                  2011-0.2.20110417.fc14                  @texlive
> 
> After last texlive update (which I only did a few days ago) I now have no 
> pdflatex
> 
> I recall similar problems in the past but somehow seemed to work around them 
> without reinstalling texlive which is massivle tedious - but its got me stumped 
> this time
> 
> $ pdflatex results4-extraTab1
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2011)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> ---! /usr/share/texlive/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt doesn't match 
> pdftex.pool
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> 
> Then as root, I moved the cfg files but get exacly same message (on 2 computers 
> laptop/desktop)
> 
> cd /usr/share/texlive/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/
> mv updmap.cfg.rpmnew updmap.cfg
> mv fmtutil.cnf.rpmnew fmtutil.cnf
> 
> 
> as I noticed the rpmsave file was newer - but to no effect (although I tried 
> fmtutil-sys --all and texhash which I imagine aren't necessary)
> 
> suggestions welcome!
> 
> Thanks
> Peter

Hi!

I had the same problem - my solution was to delete the contents of
/usr/share/rexlive/texmf-var (which is generated content). I also
removed my ~/.texlive2010 directory. On the next run of pdflatex the
files were regenerated. If you are hesitant to delete something in /usr,
you can also just move the files somewhere else.

hope this works for you,
greetings Martin