On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:57:26PM +0200, Jan Spakula 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. > > 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. > ~ A big thank you. the fmtutil-sys --all did the trick as I had no local packages. Somehow this is not run with the texlive update for me. Regards ppk
