Bug 590043

Summary: Texlive fmt files missing
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fabien Archambault <marbolangos>
Component: texliveAssignee: Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Fabien Archambault 2010-05-07 15:23:06 UTC
Description of problem: No compilation possible as fmt files are missing


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): texlive-2010-5.20100430.fc13.x86_64


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install latest texlive
  
Actual results:
I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

Expected results:
Compilation

Additional info:
I tried to compile this file :

$ cat test.tex 
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
%\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}
{\fontfamily{rsfs}\selectfont AZERTYUIOP}
\end{document}

Gives :

$ latex test.tex 
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11-beta (Web2C 2010/dev)

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

$ pdflatex test.tex 
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11-beta (Web2C 2010/dev)

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
[MarbolanGos@fedoraport test]$ pdflatex test.tex 
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11-beta (Web2C 2010/dev)

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!

I tried to find those files with yum :
# yum provides \*/latex.fmt
No Matches found
# yum provides \*/pdflatex.fmt
No Matches found

Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2010-05-10 13:41:15 UTC
Could you try to run fmtutil-sys --all ? This should regenerate missing fmt files.

The fmt files are actually not shipped in TeX Live packages but generated in %post scriptlets so it is perfectly fine that you don't see them in packages themselves.

Comment 2 Fabien Archambault 2010-05-10 13:49:29 UTC
Hello,
sorry I solved this issue by removing all latex packages this morning and reinstalling everything.

Thanks for the explanation.

Comment 3 Horst H. von Brand 2010-12-17 20:44:57 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you try to run fmtutil-sys --all ? This should regenerate missing fmt
> files.

It doesn't (texlive-2010 as of today). Never has, AFAIR.

> The fmt files are actually not shipped in TeX Live packages but generated in
> %post scriptlets so it is perfectly fine that you don't see them in packages
> themselves.