Bug 745765

This has just hammered me today after the recent update to texlive 2010. Is there any workaround other than reinstalling texlive as that's quite painful!


+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #578426 +++

Description of problem:
I can't compile tex files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm -q texlive
texlive-2009-3.20100329.fc11.x86_64


Steps to Reproduce:
1. only do pdflatex file.tex

Actual results:

pdflatex document.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009)

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


Additional info:


Some error with root, and after doing rm ~/.texlive*.

[toky@localhost rapport]$ ldd `which pdflatex`
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffbffa9000)
	libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0 (0x0000003655000000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00000035f9e00000)
	libpoppler.so.4 => /usr/lib64/libpoppler.so.4 (0x0000003b88200000)
	libkpathsea.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libkpathsea.so.5 (0x0000003b5d400000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x0000003603e00000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00000035f9200000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000003600600000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00000035f8e00000)
	libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 (0x0000003608200000)
	libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/freetype-freeworld/libfreetype.so.6 (0x0000003b99000000)
	libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x0000003b99400000)
	libopenjpeg.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libopenjpeg.so.2 (0x00000031fa800000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00000035f8a00000)
	libexpat.so.1 => /lib64/libexpat.so.1 (0x00000035fbe00000)

--- Additional comment from jnovy on 2010-03-31 10:14:59 EDT ---

This is likely caused by the texlive-kpathsea update which wipes out essential configuration files. It is because critical config files were not declared as %config(noreplace) in the old package version .

The current package correctly declares the files as %config. So from now on it won't happen. To make your TeX Live installation functional again, please do the following:

# rpm -qa | grep texlive | xargs rpm -e
# yum install texlive

This will place TeX Live back on track.

--- Additional comment from mefoster on 2010-04-01 06:52:43 EDT ---

Note that the above steps also remove the texlive-release package, so you first need to reinstall the appropriate one from http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/ before doing the second step.

--- Additional comment from jnovy on 2010-04-01 07:29:40 EDT ---

Yes, forgot the middle step. Thanks for noticing. This is what is needed to be done (for Fedora 11):

# rpm -qa | grep texlive | xargs rpm -e
# rpm -i http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/texlive-f11-release-2009-0.3.fc12.noarch.rpm
# yum install texlive

--- Additional comment from bodman on 2010-04-01 18:00:42 EDT ---

it worked, thank a lot :)

--- Additional comment from mefoster on 2010-04-21 05:20:29 EDT ---

This symptom happened again with the most recent update (to texlive-2010-3.20100420) ... I hope that it isn't going to happen every time there's a new version :(

--- Additional comment from a.j.delaney.uk on 2010-12-21 07:12:26 EST ---

I've had this happen again today.  Like Mary Ellen above, I'd appreciate if this didn't happen every update.  There are two similar and long standing bugs which appear (from my un-expert point of view) to report the same issue.

* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590043
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447062

I'm pulling my TeX Live pacakges from
http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/packages.fc14/

--- Additional comment from fedora-bugs on 2010-12-21 19:16:00 EST ---

Hm. I hit this issue, too, after a LaTeX update with the repository http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/packages.fc14/ enabled.

Neither a "sudo fmtutil-sys --all" nor a "sudo texhash" helped. "locate pdflatex.fmt" doesn't find anything.

13.20101217.fc14 is my version of texlive.

How can I reopen this bugreport?

--- Additional comment from vonbrand.cl on 2011-06-22 10:46:11 EDT ---

Happened again with today's update to texlive...

--- Additional comment from daw-redhatbugzilla.berkeley.edu on 2011-07-01 19:41:58 EDT ---

Happened to me too.  This should be re-opened.

Looks like my last yum updates of texlive-related packages were Jun 24 and Jun 26.  None of the following helped (run as root): "texhash", "fmtutil-sys --all", "updmap", "mktexlsr", "fmtutil --all", "fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdflatex".

What can I do to help troubleshoot, to ensure this doesn't keep happening in the future?  Given how many times it has happened in the past, I suspect some systematic issue.