Bug#422391: xetex/xelatex complains about xetex.fmt not being found

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Wouter,

sorry for not answering earlier (and sorry for the last mail with a
fullquote, but otherwise empty, I hit the wrong keys).

Wouter Bolsterlee <uws@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Package: texlive-xetex
> Version: 2007-5
>
> Running xetex or xelatex on any input file results in an error like this:
>
>   $ xetex somefile.tex 
>   This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>    %&-line parsing enabled.
>   kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xetex.fmt
>   I can't find the format file `xetex.fmt'!
>   
> The installation seems succesful though:
[...]
> Am I doing something wrong?

Not really, except that maybe you did something wrong in the past, some
misconfiguration.  

Since package configuration succeeds, the format is probably there,
please check that:

ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xetex.fmt

Now, why isn't it found?

What is the output of

kpsewhich --progname=xetex xetex.fmt
kpsewhich --progname=xetex --show-path fmt
grep xetex /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*

Regards, Frank


-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)