[OS X TeX] xelatex.fmt not found

[S P Suresh]

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Dear Gerben, Bernhard,

> 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.

I tried it and it doesn't work. Just to be sure, I ran through some  
of the steps again. I chose install & configure for the TeX i-Package  
(full, 2005). At some point it gave a warning which ran something like:
	
Found a XeTeX install in my location. You will have to reinstall  
XeTeX after installing TeX.

Later it gave the following warning:

I found (a) personal configuration file(s) for user(s): S P Suresh.  
These users will not fully use system-wide settings and their TeX  
configuration is not fully covered by this system-wide configuration  
phase.

I just proceeded. i-Installer finally reported that the install and  
configure proceeded without any critical errors. BTW, I am a ~/ 
Library/texmf guy, and I have some extra fonts, and some .cls  
and .sty files there.

Then I configured XeTeX, and found the following in the subprocess  
output:

This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
`xetex -ini  -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex *xelatex.ini' failed

I also tried the command you suggested at the command line. I got the  
following error:

fmtutil: no info for format `xelatex.fmt'.

The same error persists even after commenting out the lines suggested  
by Bernhard in language.dat. Should I go back to TeX and do a basic  
install rather than a full install!?

Thanks for your time.

Cheers,
Suresh

S P Suresh
Chennai Mathematical Institute
India



On 19-Oct-06, at 1:41 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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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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