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

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 01:19 -0400, Johannes Lips wrote: 
> 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.

Oops, I should have thought of that.  Thanks for the tip.

> 
> Hope this helps,

Yes, reinstalling everything does solve the problem.

> 
> Johannes
> 
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