>> An article I was working on started to throw me lots and lots of errors and >> not >> generating any PDF when passed to `pdflatex` after the last upgrade of >> Texlive. [...] > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/550158/undefined-control-sequence-in-expl3 > > says that it could be caused by a local format file sitting below > ~/.texmf . Could you check?
Indeed I did rm -rf ~/.texlive20* and the problem's gone! Thanks a lot! This said, while I now have a solution for my own, I don't think I should have to do that, so it'd be important to make sure this gets fixed automatically (e.g. by using a fresh new ~/.texlive<foo> rather than reusing one that may contain stale data, or by detecting the stale data and removing it on-the-fly). Stefan