On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 15:57, Jan Spakula<jan.spakula@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Excerpts from Christian Himpel's message of Mo Aug 31 15:32:48 +0200 2009: >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 15:22, Jan Spakula<jan.spakula@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Excerpts from Piyush P Kurur's message of Mo Aug 31 14:48:03 +0200 2009: >> > It's possibly the issue that's come up on the forums: >> > if you get something like: >> > --- >> > This is TeX, Version .... >> > Fatal format file error; I'm stymied >> > --- >> > then you need to run 'updmap --all' (as the user you get this error with). >> > Alternatively, you can delete the user's local texlive generated formats 'rm >> > ~/.texlive/texmf-var/web2c/*.fmt' (then the system-wide generated formats >> > will be used, and they do get regenerated automatically on upgrade). >> >> i think it's 'fmtutil --all' instead of 'updmap --all'. >> you could also run 'fmtutil-sys --all' as root to recreate the >> system-wide format files. > > Eh, of course it's fmtutil. Sorry. hey, no offense :) > However the point is that 'fmtutil-sys --all' *does* get run automatically on > texlive upgrade, but if the user has generated the formats themselves at some > point, these formats are preferred by texlive regardless of system changes. > So the user need to regenerate or delete the local format files. yeah, you're right.. i only remembered that in my case the install script aborted (due to malformed config file or whatever) during upgrade last time and i had to call fmtutil manually. but that was probably an issue specific to my configuration.... never mind :) peace, chressie
