Bug#362075: tetex-base: package fails to configure: Error: `tex -ini -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex...

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 12.04.06 Marvin Renich (mrvn@renich.org) wrote:
> * Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> [060412 03:34]:
> > On 12.04.06 Marvin Renich (mrvn@renich.org) wrote:

Hi,

> > fmtutil: running `tex -ini   -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex &latex xmltex.ini' ...
> > This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
> > ---! /tmp/fmtutil.21093/latex.fmt was written by pdfetex
> > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> > 
> > That sounds like one of the bugs in xmltex. However it should be
> > fixed now at least in 1.9-11.1. Which version of xmltex is on your
> > disk? Does purging and reinstalling of xmltex solve the problem?
> 
> I did have xmltex 1.9-11.1, and purging and reinstalling it fixed
> the problem. (tetex-bin conflicts with xmltex <= 1.9-10, so I
> couldn't have an older xmltex without forcing it.)
> 
Could it have been, that you had old config files from pre-1.9-11.1
sitting around and refused to replace these by the ones from
1.9-11.1?

> Is this a problem with the configuration of xmltex after upgrade,
> but not after new install?  Should I reassign the bug to xmltex?
> 
No, it should work.

H.
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