[tex-live] how to find out what went wrong with fmtutil?

[Frank Küster]

"Thanh Han The" <hanthethanh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does anyone have a clue how to find out what went wrong here
> (I got this problem after upgrading the TL live iso image):
>
> ,--------
> | fmtutil --byfmt pdftex
> | fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini' ...
> | Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini' failed
> `--------
>
> fmtutil-sys does the same. Running the command
>
> `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini'
>
> manually succeed.

This patch could help:

--- /usr/bin/fmtutil	2007-01-09 19:12:13.000000000 +0100
+++ fmtutil	2007-01-12 20:55:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@
 cleanup()
 {
   rc=$?
+  exit $?
   $needsCleanup && test -n "$tmpdir" && test -d "$tmpdir" \
     && { cd / && rm -rf "$tmpdir"; }

After that, you can inspect the temporary directory.  It's name is
defined in 

  tmpdir=${TMP-/tmp}/$progname.$$

so it is probably /tmp/fmtutil.<somenumber>

It should have the logs.  

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)