[tex-live] Problem with new TeXlive 2012 pre-test install on Win32

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:28 PM, John Minter wrote:
> I have TL-2012-pretest running on a couple of systems without issues.
> I went to do an install today on a winxp box and ran into a problem.
> Given that you are about to burn DVDs, I thought I should report it
>
> For reference, it is being installed to  TEXDIR: "C:/apps/texlive/2012"
>
> Along about line 4900 of the log file, I start getting messages like
>
> (c:/apps/texlive/2012/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dumyhyph.tex)
> (c:/apps/texlive/2012/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex)
> ! I can't find file `dehypht-x-2012-05-30.tex'.
> <to be read again>
>                   \relax
> l.375   \repeat
>
> (Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit)
> Please type another input file name:
> ! Emergency stop.
> <to be read again>
>                   \relax
> l.375   \repeat
>
> No pages of output
>
> Then later (about line 5800) I get this error
> Running: "C:\apps\texlive\2012\bin\win32\pdftex" --ini
> --jobname=eplain --progname=eplain -translate-file=cp227.tcx
> *eplain.ini <nul
>
> The file eplain.fmt was not created due to some errors.
> See the log file
> C:/apps/texlive/2012/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/eplain.log for details.
>
> And when I do this, I find at line 66
>
> ! I can't find file `dehypht-x-2012-05-30.tex'.
> <to be read again>
>
> And then a message at the bottom saying no fmt was generated. Same
> issue for several other format files...  The installation is totally
> broken.
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?

My only explanation is that the system failed to generate or failed to
generate or find the right language.dat and/or language.def.

What does "kpsewhich language.dat" return you? Does
    C:\apps\texlive\2012\texmf-var\tex\generic\config\language.dat
exist and what does it contain?

Mojca