[Fedora TeX Live] New pdflatex.fmt error

[Jindrich Novy]

Hi Mary,

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:28:19PM +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> 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.

Good catch. Maybe I should wipe out per-user generated fmt files on
upgrade in this directory if it is caused by this. The previous problem
with fmt files was triggered by %post/%postun scriptlets but it doesn't
happen on my machine any more. The scriptlets should work as expected
at least half a year now.

Is there anyone else who fixed this problem by renaming ~/.texlive2012
directory or removing fmt files from there?

Thanks,
Jindrich

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