Hi, I have been trying to find out why updating from texlive-core 2007 to 2008, pdflatex disappeared from my system :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Gets better. Kile, after testing, complains that even latex and pdftex (which are available, at least from what appears from the command line) do not work properly...
Just to add some data. Whenever I run "latex" I now get: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. ---! //var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) I suppose the following command can give interesting output: $ texconfig conf =========================== version information ========================== ==================== binaries found by searching $PATH =================== PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.6:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/opt/vmware/workstation/bin kpsewhich: /usr/bin/kpsewhich updmap: /usr/bin/updmap fmtutil: /usr/bin/fmtutil texconfig: /usr/bin/texconfig tex: /usr/bin/tex pdftex: /usr/bin/pdftex mktexpk: /usr/bin/mktexpk dvips: /usr/bin/dvips dvipdfm: /usr/bin/dvipdfm =========================== active config files ========================== //etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps //etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf //etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/config /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi pdftexconfig.tex: not found ============================= font map files ============================= psfonts.map: //var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map pdftex.map: //var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map ps2pk.map: //var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/ps2pk.map dvipdfm.map: //var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap/dvipdfm.map =========================== kpathsea variables =========================== TEXMFMAIN=/usr/share/texmf TEXMFDIST=/usr/share/texmf-dist TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/share/texmf TEXMFSYSVAR=//var/lib/texmf TEXMFSYSCONFIG=//etc/texmf TEXMFVAR=/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-var TEXMFCONFIG=/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-config TEXMFHOME=/home/raistlin/texmf VARTEXFONTS=//var/cache/fonts TEXMF={/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/raistlin/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist} SYSTEXMF=//var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-site:/usr/share/texmf-dist TEXMFDBS={!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist,!!/usr/share/texmf-doc} WEB2C={/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/raistlin/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/web2c TEXPSHEADERS=.:{/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/raistlin/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/{dvips,fonts/{enc,type1,type42,type3}}// TEXCONFIG={/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/raistlin/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/dvips// ENCFONTS=.:{/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/raistlin/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/fonts/enc// TEXFONTMAPS=.:{/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/raistlin/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/raistlin/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/fonts/map/{kpsewhich,pdftex,dvips,}// ==== kpathsea variables from environment only (ok if no output here) ==== And as usual: $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:15:04 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://gentoo.intergenia.de ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa aqua_theme arts async avantgo bash-completion berkdb bindist bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cardbus cdparanoia cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups curlwrappers dell dga dhcp directfb djbfft dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo fat fbcon fbsplash fftw firefox foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gdbm gif gnutls gphoto2 gpm gs gtk gzip hal hpn iconv icq idea imagemagick imap ipod ipv6 irda isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes john jpeg jpeg2k kde kdepim lapack libnotify mbox messages midi mikmod mime mmap mmx mmxext mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap mysqli nagios-dns ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly ntfs ntlm nvidia octave ogg opengl oscar pam pcapnav pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdf perl pmu png posix ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radius rdesktop readline real reflection replytolist samba sasl scanner sdl session sharedmem silc slp sms sockets sox spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svga sysfs sysvipc tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype type1 unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs winbind x86 xcomposite xine xml xmlrpc xorg xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Following a seemingly similar comment in a forum, I tried to run: fmtutil-sys --all And the final lines of the command log are as follows: ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory //var/lib/texmf/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `pdftex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex &latex xmltex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfxmltex -progname=pdfxmltex &pdflatex pdfxmltex.ini' failed
It possibly has to do with the fact that - dev-tex/luatex-0.30.0 (masked by: EAPI 2) - dev-tex/luatex-0.29.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) So I had to manually unmask luatex-0.29.0 to get through the update.
(In reply to comment #0) > I have been trying to find out why updating from texlive-core 2007 to 2008, > pdflatex disappeared from my system :) pdflatex belongs to texlive-latex, which is not pulled in by texlive-core. I'd recommend installing the app-text/texlive metapackage, that pulls in the latex-packages as well. Just keep the useflags minimal if you need to save space. No idea why you still have the latex symlink, though, as that also is not part of texlive-core.
(In reply to comment #5) > pdflatex belongs to texlive-latex, which is not pulled in by texlive-core. I'd > recommend installing the app-text/texlive metapackage, that pulls in the > latex-packages as well. Just keep the useflags minimal if you need to save > space. Already did: $ sudo emerge -pv texlive These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-text/texlive-2007-r3 USE="X extra graphics png pstricks publishers science xml -cjk -context -cyrillic -doc -games -humanities -jadetex -music -omega -tex4ht -xetex" LINGUAS="-af -ar -bg -bn -bo -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en_GB -eo -es -et -fi -fr -he -hi -hr -hsb -hu -hy -id -is -it -ja -ko -la -ml -mn -nl -no -pl -pt -ro -ru -sk -sl -sr -sv -ta -th -tr -uk -vi -zh" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Ah, here's the culprit: $ sudo emerge -pv texlive-latex These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2007 USE="-doc" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB ~x86 and x86 masking for texlive packages should be coordinated a little better, probably...
OK, I figured out why portage pulled in two ~x86 packages among the x86 install I ordinarily use. My bad :)
