[tex-live] fmtutil failure for ptex update.

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Fri May 6 10:03:51 CEST 2011


Howdy,

There was a fmtutil failure during today's update via tlmgr (via TeX Live Utility on Mac). I got

2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	Error: `ptex -ini  -jobname=platex -progname=platex *platex.ini' failed
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	###############################################################################
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	Visit the log files in directory
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	for details.
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	###############################################################################
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	`ptex -ini  -jobname=platex -progname=platex *platex.ini' failed
2011-05-06 02:59:44 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[509]	

on TeX Live Utility's console.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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