[OS X TeX] xelatex.fmt not found

[Gerben Wierda]

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> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded to i-Installer 2.83 and also updated a clutch of
> i-Packages, TeX among them. I was asked to re-install XeTeX after the
> TeX install, so I did that as well. When I now compile a document
> with xelatex, I get the following error message:
>
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.995 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
> fmtutil: format directory `/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c'
> is not writable.

My guess is that reinstalling XeTeX did not result in recompiled formats.
Maybe something went wrong (e.g. a hyphenation pattern file has been
activated that it incompatible with XeTeX) and you can see that in the
i-Package subprocess output tab.

I would suggest running the configure phase of the XeTeX i-Package again
(checking the output of the subprocess) or on the command line you could
say

sudo -H fmtutil-sys --byfmt xelatex.fmt

After which the format xelatex.fmt should have been created in
texmf.local/web2c if nothing goes wrong.

G

> I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!
>
> I am sure I must have stupidly missed out on some step. But I don't
> recall encountering this problem in the past. Can someone help me out
> on this!? Advance apologies if this issue has come up in the past,
> and you are bored to death of answering the same old questions, but I
> promise not to ask this very same question again :)
>
> Cheers,
> Suresh
>
> S P Suresh
> Chennai Mathematical Institute
> India
>
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