Bug#815416: does not regenerate format files after installing hyphenation patterns

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>]

2016-02-21 16:09 GMT+03:00 Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>:
>> Please see the following log. I do have neither the local copy of the
>> formats, nor the local copy of LaTeX.
>
> This is strange.
>
> Can you check for the output of
>         kpsewhich language.dat
> as *ROOT* and also as
>         sudo kpsewhich language.dat

lumag@forlindon:/tmp/n$ sudo kpsewhich language.dat
[sudo] password for lumag:
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
lumag@forlindon:/tmp/n$ su -
Password:
root@forlindon:~# kpsewhich language.dat
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat


>
> Your logs clearly indicate that the formats were rebuilt:
>
>> Building latex-based formats --byhyphen
>> /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat.
>> This may take some time... done.
>
> Can you run this command as root and send me the output?
>
>         fmtutil --sys --byhyphen /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
>
> I have no idea why the call above did not update the formats.

Sending in private, not to clobber the bug.

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With best wishes
Dmitry