[solved] Lualatex: Fatal format file error; I'm stymied

essence-of-foo · 2011-05-24 20:52:06

Hello my fellow archers,

the binaries luatex and lualatex do not work on my system. Whenever they read the first input character, they report

This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.67.0-2011051511 (rev 4192) 
 restricted \write18 enabled.

(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

My other TeX binaries (tex, latex, pdftex, pdflatex) do not have this problem and work fine. TeXLive ist completely up to date. This is not a new error but I finally decided to use the Arch forum because I'm stuck.

After doing some research I learned about fmtutil and how you need to generate formats for each individual binary. So I used

fmtutil --all

But this didn't change anything. The --byengine switch didn't help either. I also tried recompiling the entire texlive-bin package but with no success.

So, I'd appreciate any pointers

edit: marked as solved

Last edited by essence-of-foo (2011-07-22 20:16:07)

essence-of-foo · 2011-05-28 22:07:23

No answers so far

Dear reader, you can also help me by just telling me whether this problem is reproducible on your system. This may help me to track down the cause.

ConnorBehan · 2011-05-28 22:13:07

Happens on my system every time as well.

texlive-bin 2010.1-8
texlive-core 2010.22154-1
texlive-htmlxml 2010.21272-1
texlive-langextra 2010.21570-1
texlive-latexextra 2010.22155-1
texlive-pictures 2010.22101-1
texlive-publishers 2010.22075-1

rekado · 2011-07-20 03:36:10

I use the same versions as ConnorBehan and experienced the same error message. Issuing

fmtutil --all

fixed it for me, though.

essence-of-foo · 2011-07-21 16:46:25

Wohoo! It works! I first tried the fmtutil command as root again and it still didn't work. Then I ran the command as normal user and now everything works

Thank you very much

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#1 2011-05-24 20:52:06

[solved] Lualatex: Fatal format file error; I'm stymied

#2 2011-05-28 22:07:23

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