[tex-live] fmtutil(-sys) --all reports errors

[Peter Ragosch]

Hello List,
I've installed TL2008 full-scheme (only win-support excluded) on SuSE 11.0 
x86_64 into path /usr/local/texlive/... without any problem.

But  fmtutil-sys --all reports 13 errors.

I've checked the TeX environment and couldn't found any mismatch with previous 
versions or the SuSE-TeX stuff. So the installation looks to be clean.

I could solve most of them provisionally, but have no idea whats going on on 
(2) and (3).

Any further hints or suggestions are greatly welcome!
Peter Ragosch

bash> fmtutil-sys --all
(1) Error: 
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx 
*amstex.ini' failed
(2) Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex 
jadetex.ini' failed
(3) Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex 
pdfjadetex.ini' failed
(4) Error: `luatex -ini  -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini' 
failed
(5) Error: `luatex -ini  -jobname=pdflualatex -progname=pdflualatex 
pdflualatex.ini' failed
(6) Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=mex -progname=mex -translate-file=cp227.tcx 
*mex.ini' failed
(7) Error: 
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdfmex -progname=pdfmex -translate-file=cp227.tcx 
*pdfmex.ini' failed
(8) Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=physe -progname=physe physe.ini' failed
(9) Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=phyzzx -progname=phyzzx physe.ini' failed
(10) Error: 
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=texsis -progname=texsis -translate-file=cp227.tcx 
texsis.ini' failed
(11) Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=utf8mex -progname=utf8mex -enc 
*utf8mex.ini' failed
(12) Error: `xetex -ini  -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' 
failed
(13) Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex &latex xmltex.ini' 
failed
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I took a deeper look into the log files and found the following:

Most errors, except (2,3) and (4,5), are based on interaction of simplified 
writing of \input argument without file extention (.tex) in .ini files and 
the behaviour of kpsewhich reporting a binary file in this special cases.

May be there is something wrong with my configuration?

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(1) ERROR 
change line 43 of amstex.ini to
43 \input amstex.tex
solves the problem provisionally.
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(2) ERROR
bash> pdftex -ini  -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini
[lines cutted]
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/atbegshi.sty))
*hyperref using default driver hdvips*
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hdvips.def
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/pdfmark.def))
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/jadetex/base/dsssl.def))
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xmltex/passivetex/mlnames.sty
! Undefined control sequence.
l.209   \last at language
                      \m at ne
? H

I've no idea what's going on here.
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(3) ERROR
same as (2)
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(4) ERROR
bash> luatex -ini  -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini
[lines cutted]
===========================================
Local configuration file hyphen.cfg used
===========================================
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/source/latex/cmcyralt/hyphen.cfg
Loading hyphenation patterns for US english.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)
Loading hyphenation patterns for Russian.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/doc/latex/cmcyralt/rhyphen.tex
Russian hyphenation
! Text line contains an invalid utf-8 sequence.
l.107  .�
         ��2

rename /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/source/latex/cmcyralt/hyphen.cfg to 
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/source/latex/cmcyralt/lthyphen.cfg, as 
advised in the file, solves the problem, as well as (5).
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(6) ERROR
Change line 21 of mex.ini to
21 \input mex.tex
solves the problem provisionally.
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(7) ERROR
Change line 3 of pdfmex.ini from to
3 \input mex.tex
solves the problem provisionally.
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(8) and (9) ERROR
Change line 3 of physe.ini to
2 \input physe.tex
solves the problem provisionally.
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(10) ERROR
Change line 3 of texsis.ini to
1 \input texsis.tex
solves the problem provisionally.
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(11) ERROR
Change line 28 of utf8mex.ini to
28 \input mex.tex
solves the problem provisionally.
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(12) ERROR
Solved provisionally by file rename, see (4)
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(13) ERROR
Change line 28 of xmltex.ini to
1 \input xmltex.tex
solves the problem provisionally.
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