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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Wouter Bolsterlee <uws@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> No, it's not there. The directory /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/ doesn't even
> exist. The contents of /var/lib/texmf/web2c are listed below:
>
>   $ ls -lF /var/lib/texmf/web2c/
>   total 48
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-05-05 17:43 aleph/
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5509 2007-05-05 17:58 fmtutil.cnf
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-05-05 17:43 metafont/
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-05-05 17:43 metapost/
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-05-05 17:43 omega/
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-05-05 17:53 pdfetex/
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-05-05 17:43 tex/
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7569 2007-05-05 17:58 updmap.cfg
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7627 2007-05-05 17:53 updmap.log

So the other engines do use their subdirectory.  The other output you
sent is just as expected.

> Hope this helps. Please let me know if you need additional information!

Yes, when you run 

fmtutil-sys --byfmt=xetex

as root it tells you in the last line to which location the format is
installed.  What does it tell on your system?  It's easier to debug this
with fmtutil instead of fmtutil-sys.  On a working system,

fmtutil --byfmt=xetex

run *as*user* should install into
/home/uws/.texmf-var/web2c/xetex/xetex.fmt.  If it does not do that
either, fine:  Please run

sh -xv fmtutil --byfmt=xetex > fmtutil-debug.log 2>&1

and send us the file fmtutil-debug.log

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