[tex-k] Bug?

[Kiran Kolwankar]

Hi, I have, for now, installed texlive from your site which is working.
I realized that the problem is not with the tex but ubuntu which I'll
try to figure out later. So you need not worry. Thanks - Kiran

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Kiran Kolwankar
<kiran.kolwankar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently upgrade to ubuntu 14.04. While installing it
> showed some error with tex-common but it continued
> and completed the installation.
>
> Today, while doing pdflatex I encountered the following error:
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> I searched on the net and did various things suggested on
> different mailing list:
>
> 1) Running the code:
>
> cd /etc/texmf
> for a in `find . -name "*.pacnew"`; do
>     sudo mv $(echo ${a/.pacnew/}) $(echo ${a/.pacnew/}).mybackup;
>     sudo mv $a $(echo ${a/.pacnew/});
> done
> sudo fmtutil-sys --all
>
> 2) Renaming the file .texmf-var
>
> 3) Complete removal of texlive and reinstalling it (as somebody had
> succeeded with it).
>
> But nothing worked. Rather there were errors while reinstalling and that is what
> I am reporting. I am attaching three files.
>
> But if I run pdflatex now I get a different (following) error:
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
>
>
> What could be the problem? I need to use latex urgently.
> Anyway, I'll keep searching the net to find out more though
> I am not an expert in linux. Now I feel I unnecessarily hurried
> and updated the linux.
>
> I'll be nice if there is some solution to this.
>
> Thanking you in advance,
> Best regards,
> Kiran