[Fedora TeX Live] pdflatex doesn't work after upgrade

[Johannes Lips]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 21:12 -0400, Tobias Mueller wrote: 
>> Heya :)
>>
>> On 03.07.2012 02:26, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>> pdflatex was working before the recent repo upgrade, but now reports
>>>         I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
>> I think this is a well-known issue which seem to happen on every single
>> upgrade. I don't know whether this is being worked on though.
>>
>> Does https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745765#c1 help you?
>>
>> Essentially: Edit the lines in
>> /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf that are within the pdftex
>> section and remove the "#!" in front.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but that didn't help.  Comment 1 there
> refers to the pdflatex section, which I'm not seeing.  Uncommenting the
> pdftex section didn't seem to do the job.
> 
> I suppose removing and reinstalling texlive-\* and tex-\* sill do it,
> but that's kind of a pain, as I have a bunch of additional packages
> beyond the default installed.
> 
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Tobi
>>
> 
Hi,

for me a
yum reinstall tex-* texlive-*
fixed, so I didn't lose any packages. Although it's not really perfect
and I would have loved another solution.

Hope this helps,

Johannes