Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 447062
pdflatex cannot find the format file 'pdflatex.fmt'
Last modified: 2013-07-02 19:29:27 EDT
Description of problem: pdflatex cannot find the format file 'pdflatex.fmt' and therefore is not usable. Here is the output of the command $pdflatex filename.tex: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The latest available. How reproducible: Run pdflatex on a .tex file.
I found accidentally fmtutil tool and fixed it by running 'fmtutil --missing'. I am not the only one having this problem: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1016271 My Fedora 9 is fresh install, not an upgrade. I installed texlive by selecting Publishing in the Anaconda installer. latex.fmt was also missing.
It still happens in Fedora 10 Preview. Running 'fmtutil --missing' as user fixed it again.
I have the FC10 OS installed on my desktop. I have pretty much the same problem I think. latex.fmt is missing. Additionally, running fmtutil or fmtutil-sys commands doesn't fix the problem and they a give a bunch of pdftex relatex failure messages: ############################################################################### 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 and warnings: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=mex -progname=mex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *mex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfmex -progname=pdfmex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfmex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=utf8mex -progname=utf8mex -enc *utf8mex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=eplain -progname=eplain -translate-file=cp227.tcx *eplain.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=mptopdf -progname=context -translate-file=cp227.tcx mptopdf.tex' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' failed
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Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
still the same with fedora 10
(In reply to comment #6) > still the same with fedora 10 The same in Fedora 11 too.
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Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.