[Fedora TeX Live] New pdflatex.fmt error

Mary Ellen Foster mefoster at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 15:28:19 CEST 2012


On 23 August 2012 14:25, Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster at gmail.com> wrote:

> After today's updates (TexLive 2012 on Fedora 17), I now get the following
> error:
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2013/dev)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> ---! /home/mef3/.texlive2012/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt doesn't
> match pdftex.pool
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
>
> The trick from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745765#c1doesn't seem to work this time ... why does this sort of thing keep
> happening?
>

Update for posterity: moving .texlive2012 out of the way seems to have
fixed the problem. And the directory hasn't (yet) been recreated, hmm.

Anyway, I can process my camera-ready paper again so I'm happy for now.

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster -- http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~mef3/
Interaction Lab -- http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab
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