On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Lorenzo Bandieri <lorenzo.bandieri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi archers! > > On 2011-09-15 TexLive was upgraded (see [1]). Initially I had no problems, > but in the following days there had been two subsequent upgrades of > texlive-bin, the last of wich yesterday (or today, last time I upgraded was > two days ago), that caused errors. > > In both cases, the error was the same: > > (5/5) upgrading > texlive-bin > [##################################################] 100% >>>> texlive: updating the filename database... > mktexlsr: Updating /etc/texmf/ls-R... > mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... > mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R... > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... > mktexlsr: Done. > recreating all formats...Error: `eptex -ini -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex > *eptex.ini' failed > > ############################################### > fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. > Visit the log files in directory > /var/lib/texmf/web2c > for details. > ################################################## > > This is a summary of all `failed' messages: > `eptex -ini -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex *eptex.ini' failed > done. > (logs are under /var/lib/texmf/web2c/<engine>/<formatname>.log) > > Since errors were somewhat expected in non-fresh install [2], the first > time I solved reinstalling everything. However, on the last texlive-bin > upgrade (texlive-bin-2011.1-3-i686) the error showed up again, as I stated. > To me it's odd that I have to reinstall all texlive-most and texlive-lang > on every update, but on the bug report there is no workaround provided. I > googled but I didn't find anything, and searching on the forum returned no > hits. > > So, I wonder if anyone had the same problem and if there is a solution > (apart from reinstalling texlive-most and texlive-lang...). > > Thank you! > > Regards, > > Lorenzo > > > > > [1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/texlive-2011-update/ > [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25250 > Yeap, it's not only you, I got the same error. -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)
