[pretest] Creating hitex.fmt fails

[Uwe Siart]

This is my hitex.log after today's update:

,----[ hitex.log ]
| This is HiTeX, Version 3.141592653, HINT version 1.4 (INITEX)  10 MAR 2022 06:59
| entering extended mode
| entering Prote mode
| **hitex.ini 
| (hitex.ini (etex.src (plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers,
| \maxdimen=\dimen10
| \hideskip=\skip10
| \centering=\skip11
| \p@=\dimen11
| \z@=\dimen12
| \z at skip=\skip12
| \voidb at x=\box10
| 
| parameters,
| \smallskipamount=\skip13
| \medskipamount=\skip14
| \bigskipamount=\skip15
| \normalbaselineskip=\skip16
| \normallineskip=\skip17
| \normallineskiplimit=\dimen13
| \jot=\dimen14
| \interdisplaylinepenalty=\count23
| \interfootnotelinepenalty=\count24
|  fonts,
| ! Font \tenrm=cmr10 not loadable: Bad metric (TFM) file.
| <to be read again> 
|                    \font 
| l.401 \font
|            \preloaded=cmr9
| ? 
| ! Emergency stop.
| <to be read again> 
|                    \font 
| l.401 \font
|            \preloaded=cmr9
| End of file on the terminal!
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Uwe