Bug#462610: texlive-xetex: Missing `xelatex.fmt' file

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:

> fter installing xetex, I can't use xelatex. Attempting to run it gives
> me this error:
>
> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch1 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
> I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!
>
> Though there were no errors during the installation, is this normal?

No - the fact that the installation (which runs as root) hints at a bad
configuration in your user environment.

What's the output of 

kpsewhich --engine=xetex --var-value=TEXFORMATS
kpsewhich --engine=xetex --show-path='fmt'
grep TEXFORMATS /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
grep TEXFORMATS /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)