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caminoix

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From: cracow, poland

Registered: 2005-07-12

Posts: 162

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xelatex stymied

Hello,

I'm not able to run xelatex after the last update.

I deleted my "~/.texlive" and did "fmtutil -all" and "sudo fmtutil-sys --all", and they do not seem to be reporting any errors. Xelatex only says that much:

This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2012/dev/Arch Linux)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

I can run latex, lualatex and pdflatex. It is only with xelatex that I have problems, and unfortunately this is the one I need.

Any help will be appreciated.

hooch

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Registered: 2010-12-15

Posts: 21

Re: xelatex stymied

same here.

did the same steps like you and also removed latex-*, deleted /usr/share/texmf* and reinstalled, but without success. didn't change anything.

cbsw

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Registered: 2012-02-01

Posts: 4

Re: xelatex stymied

Yestoday i found the problem. I found that it's because zlib was upgrade to 1.2.6-1,but texlive still used 1.2.5.
I wanted to install zlib 1.2.5 through abs,but i couldn't connect to www.zlib.net
today i pacman -Syu and found texlive was upgraded,but it still didn't work.Sometimes i was confused by arch ,it updates
so fast.almost everyday if i run pacman -Syu,then problem comes.

Last edited by cbsw (2012-02-02 03:13:52)

GordonGR

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From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Registered: 2011-11-07

Posts: 276

Re: xelatex stymied

Same here. Well, zlib.net is up again, although perhaps we should wait an see what the developers do before we make an aur :-)

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caminoix

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From: cracow, poland

Registered: 2005-07-12

Posts: 162

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Re: xelatex stymied

I found a temporary workaround here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do … er_id=8900 (downgrade texlive-bin to 2011.3-1 and zlib to 1.2.5-4). I don't think I can attach files in this forum so mail me if you have a problem finding the appropriate versions.

Last edited by caminoix (2012-02-02 23:09:21)

cbsw

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Registered: 2012-02-01

Posts: 4

Re: xelatex stymied

today pacman -Syu upgrade the texlive-bin and finally it woks.thank goodness.
SO the command pacman -Syu should be used CAREFULLY!!!

Last edited by cbsw (2012-02-03 01:58:11)

hooch

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Registered: 2010-12-15

Posts: 21

Re: xelatex stymied

confim. just updated and it works again! thanks.

caminoix

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From: cracow, poland

Registered: 2005-07-12

Posts: 162

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Re: xelatex stymied

Confirmed, xelatex now works. Great, thanks!