[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt not found after update

[Jonathan Kew]

On 19 Oct 2005, at 4:46 pm, Stefano Franchi wrote:

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> On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:14 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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>>> On 6 Oct 2005, at 6:39 pm, Florian Grammel wrote:
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>>>> After the recommended update from TL2004 to TL2005 using the i-
>>>> installer reinstalling XeTeX didn't work for me.
<snip>

> BTW, the error message I get when trying to run XeTeX (or XLaTeX)  
> from TeXShop is the following:
>
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)
> ---! /Users/stefano/Library/texmf/web2c/xelatex.fmt doesn't match  
> xetex.pool
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>

I notice that this is an old release of XeTeX (see the version  
number); you should update your i-Package to the latest release,  
especially if using TL2005. Perhaps you already did so; in that case,  
maybe you have an old version somewhere on your system outside of the  
TeX installation, which survived the update/reinstall process and is  
being found instead of the new one.

JK