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From: Angelo Graziosi <Angelo DOT Graziosi AT roma1 DOT infn DOT it>
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Subject: 'Fatal format file error; I'm stymied'
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I want to flag this problem with teTeX.

Often there building documents fails as in these examples:
--------------------------------------------------
pdftex tex-ref.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a (Web2C 7.5.4)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)pdftex tex-ref.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a (Web2C 7.5.4)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
--------------------------------------------------

OR
-------------------------------------------------
TEXINPUTS="/home/Angelo/Downloads/cygwin_varie/emacs-cvs/Build-1/Build-2/emacs/man:" MAKEINFO="makeinfo
--force
-I/home/Angelo/Downloads/cygwin_varie/emacs-cvs/Build-1/Build-2/emacs/man" texi2dvi
/home/Angelo/Downloads/cygwin_varie/emacs-cvs/Build-1/Build-2/emacs/man/emacs.texi
This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken, quitting. 
-------------------------------------------------

and similar.

I have searched the list and Google finding the solutions suggested in:
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00130.html
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22tetex+3.0.0-3+format+file+problem%22&hl=en
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00963.html
http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/fatal-format-file-error.html
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=formatstymy

but they do not solve it.

I have also tried uninstalling all teTeX packages, removing all 'texmf'
directory that uninstall does not remove and then reinstalling the tetex
packages, but the problem is still there.


Cheers,
   Angelo.



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