Description of Problem: pdfjadetex cannot deal with its format file, complaining about a " Fatal format file error". According to strace the format file it has just tried to read is /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfjadetex.fmt Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.6-4 How Reproducible: Always reproducible. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a suitable TeX file: "docbook2tex article.xml" creates article.tex 2. Convert this to PDF: "pdfjadetex article.tex" gives the error Actual Results: $ pdfjadetex article.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) Expected Results: Creation of the file article.pdf Additional Information: The last few lines of the strace output include: open("/usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfjadetex.fmt", O_RDONLY) = 3 ...read(3, "\33\16\7\\\17\377\377\377\0\0\32d\0\0\0\0\0\26\343`\0\0"..., 4096) = 4096 ... write(1, "(Fatal format file error; I\'m st"..., 39) = 39
That's because you haven't applied all of the updates. This is fixed in 3.11-4.