[Fedora TeX Live] Again problem with formats.

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 5 September 2012 13:40, Rudi Gaelzer <rudi at ufpel.edu.br> wrote:

> Today, after I installed the latest updates for Fedora TeXlive, I ran again
> into the following problem, which is becoming somewhat frequent lately:
>
> ===============================================
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2013/dev)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> ---! /home/rudi/.texlive2012/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match
> pdftex.pool
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> ================================================
>
> I'm still trying to remember what I did last time to solve this problem.  I
> anyone out there could help me out here, I'd be grateful.
>

This is a different problem than the "normal" *.fmt problem and can be
fixed by

rm -rf ~/.texlive2012


(Fixing the "normal" problem involves
editing /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf and running "fmtutil-sys
--all".)

How sad is it that I can talk about a "normal" *.fmt problem? Is it
possible to fix the TeXLive packages once and for all so that these things
don't happen on every upgrade?

MEF

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