<div dir="ltr">It sometimes happens, usually if you have wrong setting of PATH during update. The *.pool files contains all strings including the error messages so if the files do not match, TeX is unable to display a better error message.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-16 23:17 GMT+01:00 Pi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juanpide@gmail.com" target="_blank">juanpide@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Reinstalled everything and still the same problem.<div>The problem only happens with the 64bit executable, the 32bit one is OK.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, after <span style="font-size:12.8px">fmtutil -sys --all it works, thanks.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I don't know if this happened to others too</span></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-16 23:03 GMT+01:00 Zdenek Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com" target="_blank">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>For some reason your pdflatex.fmt was created with a different version of pdftex.pool. It is necessary to regenerate the format, most probably all formats. You can do it by:<br><br></div>fmtutil-sys --all<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div><div><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-16 21:31 GMT+01:00 Pi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juanpide@gmail.com" target="_blank">juanpide@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"> Hello</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Some days ago I updated Tex Live 2015 with</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">tlmgr -all</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">and now my Tex Live doesn't work.</font></div></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">TexStudio says it can't start pdflatex.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">If I try to run pfdlatex directly it says.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><br></font></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX) (preloaded format=pdflatex)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> restricted \write18 enabled.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">---! c:/texlive/2015/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">fmtutil --all doesn't solve the problem either<br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><font color="#222426" face="Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, Lucida Console, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Courier New, monospace, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.5px;white-space:pre-wrap">fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
fmtutil: c:/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:
fmtutil: c:/users/joe/.texlive2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
Cannot get a temporary directory after five iterations ... sorry! at c:/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/<a href="http://fmtutil.pl" target="_blank">fmtutil.pl</a> line 334.
C:\texlive\2015\bin\win64\runscript.tlu:659: command failed with exit code 2:
perl.exe c:/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/<a href="http://fmtutil.pl" target="_blank">fmtutil.pl</a> --all</span></font><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><div>I've tried to repair everything from Tex Live Manager , runing as admin, no errors but pdflatex still doesn't work.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't use firewall, and the antivirus is not the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>What should I do?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div></div></div></div>
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