[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt not found after update

[Gerben Wierda]

> On 6 Oct 2005, at 6:39 pm, Florian Grammel wrote:
>
>  > After the recommended update from TL2004 to TL2005 using the i-
>  > installer reinstalling XeTeX didn't work for me.
>  >
>  > TeXShop kept reporting that "xelatex.fmt" couldn't be found. When I
>  > looked for the file, both xetex.fmt and xelatex.fmt were actually
>  > missing from texmf.local/web2c. Also another attempt to install
>  > xetex with the i-installer didn't get them in place, eventhough --
>  > like in the first run -- no errors were reported.
>  >
>  > I got xetex working again by just copying the missing files
>  > manually from a friend's installation.
>  >
>  > Did I make a mistake here or did anybody else have the same problem?
>
> I have the same problem, except that I can't figure out out to solve
> it! The files were created in the local texmf tree and TeXShop couldn't
> find them. Where should these two files be copied to? I moved them to
> the global tree (/usr/local/teTeX/share/web2c) but that didn't help. I
> used Wierda i-Installer, BTW.

We need to make certain this problem does not happen. As far as I know it
can only happen

Do you see any files in personal texmf directories? Please send me the
output of the following commands (to be run in Terminal)

    ls -lRa ~/Library/texmf

    sudo ls -lRa ~root/Library/texmf

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