build log attached, it looks like there may be a missing poppler dependency. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 691023 [details] build.log
> fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini -jobname=latex-dev -progname=latex-dev -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' ... > pdftex: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.104: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I think it's exactly the same problem as bug #775662: your pdftex binary is broken and needs a rebuild.
Rebuilding texlive-basic fixed it. I think this was a binpkg quirk