X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5005B78C.5010303@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:05:48 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: latex error: latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool References: <5005B39B DOT 502 AT ucar DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <5005B39B.502@ucar.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown AT cornell DOT edu - Tue Jul 17 15:05:44 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 7/17/2012 2:48 PM, Keith Lindsay wrote: > Hi, > > When I attempt to run latex on a simple .tex file (attached), I get the > following error message: > > $ latex polynom.tex > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Cygwin) > restricted \write18 enabled. > ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) The postinstall script for texlive-collection-latex should have created a new latex.fmt. The quick fix for your problem is to run /usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --all as administrator (or as whichever user did the Cygwin installation). But you should probably also make sure that the postinstall scripts have all run successfully, or else you could run into other problems. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple