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From:	Angelo Graziosi <Angelo DOT Graziosi AT roma1 DOT infn DOT it>
To:	dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com
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Subject:	RE: 'Fatal format file error; I'm stymied'
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Dave Korn wrote:

> I had this problem just yesterday!  And I found a solution, at least for
> etex.fmt.

Hi Dave,

I have tried that and it works fine for etex! but not for PDFTEX!

I have followed exactly the same similar steps:

  rm /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt
  rm ~/.texmf/var/web2c/pdftex.fmt

  pdftex //end
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a (Web2C 7.5.4)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdftex.fmt
fmtutil: running `pdfetex -ini   -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini' ...
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
entering extended mode
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/pdftex.ini
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex Preloading the plain
format: codes,
registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions,
output routines, hyphenation
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)) 
)
Beginning to dump on file pdftex.fmt
 (format=pdftex 2007.4.2)
2525 strings of total length 36463
4991 memory locations dumped; current usage is 110&4878
1056 multiletter control sequences
\font\nullfont=nullfont
\font\tenrm=cmr10
.....
\font\preloaded=cmtt10 at 14.4pt
\font\preloaded=cmssbx10 at 14.4pt
\font\preloaded=manfnt
14787 words of font info for 50 preloaded fonts
14 hyphenation exceptions
Hyphenation trie of length 6075 has 181 ops out of 35111
  181 for language 0
No pages of output.
Transcript written on pdftex.log.
fmtutil: /home/Angelo/.texmf/var/web2c/pdftex.fmt installed.
---! /home/Angelo/.texmf/var/web2c/pdftex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)


  cd ~/.texmf/var/web2c/
  rm pdftex.fmt

I have adapted following the above output:

  pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx
         *pdftex.ini


but it says:

  This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
! I can't find file `*pdftex.ini'.
<*> *pdftex.ini
               
Please type another input file name: 


And now ?



Thanks,

  Angelo.



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