[pdftex] can't find the format file

Sat Jan 25 16:57:01 CET 2003

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Dear pdfTeX help,                               

I did just spend over an hour with the FAQ and  

manual, trying to fix this--                    

I'm getting the                                 

"I can't find the format file `pdftex.fmt'!"    

Folllowing the manual, I did the                

pdftex -ini -fmt=pdftex plain                   

texhash                                         

texconfig init                                  

steps.  My env includes                         

TEXMFCNF=/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf       

and that file exists and contains               

TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c                     

and the file exists:                            

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       371482 Jan 19

22:00 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt         

Please reply to me at this address.             

Many Thanks,                                    

Aime'

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