[XeTeX] "I can't find the format file `xetex.fmt'!"

[Malcolm Ross]

I have the same error message as José below (after a large-scale  
reinstallation which was not occasioned by XeTeX).

I'm not sure I understand Herb's message below. Doing what I thought  
he meant, I removed the xelatex.fmt and xetex.fmt files from ~/ 
Library/texmf/web2c/. The result when I ran XeTeX was this error  
message:



> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.95 (Web2C 7.5.3)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
> fmtutil: no info for format `xelatex'.
> I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!
>
>

I would greatly appreciate advice.

Malcolm Ross

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On Oct 7, 2005, at 7:23 PM, Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill wrote:

 >
 > It was working before, but I figured it couldn't hurt to upgrade, but
 > now xelatex no longer works:
 >
 > This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.95 (Web2C 7.5.3)
 > ---! /Users/jmf/Library/texmf/web2c/xelatex.fmt doesn't match
 > xetex.pool
 > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
 >
 > Any ideas?
 >
 > Thanks, José
 >

Howdy,

It appears that the xelatex.fmt file that is being found is in your
personal tree. Try just moving the xelatex.fmt and xetex.fmt files
from ~/Library/texmf/web2c/.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz