Ken Brown writes: > On 7/20/2012 2:01 AM, Fergus wrote: >> 1. Currently, having recently upgraded, I can't use latex: >> $ latex a8.tex >> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Cygwin) >> restricted \write18 enabled. >> ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool >> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) > > It looks like something went wrong with your installation of > texlive-collection-latex. See
This happened to me as well when first upgrading from teTeX to TeXlive. The error message indicates that a different binary produced the format file than the binary that is now trying to use it. When this happens after upgrading it seems to be related to a symlink not pointing to where it should (in this case there seems to be a latex.exe file where there should be a symlink from latex->pdftex.exe). Since re-installing the whole of TeXlive takes so much time I just re-linked everything and ran the script that creates the format files. I think the fact that some of these links are created from texconfig may be the source of the problem, maybe you could check if the installation really cleans all symlinks (and unexpected executables where a symlink should be installed) before creating the formats. The executables generally seem to come from the updated distribution, so I think it may just be an interaction between some of the postinstall scripts. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
