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guissmo

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Registered: 2020-07-08

Posts: 8

[SOLVED] pdflatex: (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

When I run,

pdflatex test.tex

I get:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020/Arch Linux) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
---! pdflatex.fmt made by different executable version
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

As suggested by https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TeX_Live_FAQ I have tried running

fmtutil-sys --all

both as sudo and not as sudo. I have deleted all the *.fmt files from ~/.texlive/texmf-var/web2c/*.fmt. I did a system update hoping it will fix the problem (i.e. a pacman -Syu) but the problem still persists.

Anyone else have any suggestion on what to do? Please and thank you!

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Solved: There was a "pdflatex.fmt" on the same directory as the latex file. I deleted it and all was well.

Last edited by guissmo (2020-07-08 20:16:11)