[Fedora TeX Live] I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'

Tobias Mueller fedora-bugs at cryptobitch.de
Fri Jan 20 18:53:04 CET 2012


Hey folks,

On 16.01.2011 23:08, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> I've updated everything but I still get the missing latex.fmt error:
arr. Just got bitten again after upgrading to F16.
$ echo foo | pdflatex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
**
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
$

A fix was to edit the lines in
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf that are within the pdftex
section and remove the "#!" in front. After that, pdflatex worked again.

It's very inconvenient though. Is there anything that I could have done
in order to prevent that cobbly upgrade path?

Cheers,
  Tobi

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