teTeX-2.0.2_5 -- latex: fatal: Item 0 &c.

[Sergey Zaharchenko]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:59:09PM +1200,
 Richard MAHONEY probably wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 03:39:09PM +0400, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:38:35PM +1200,
> >  Richard MAHONEY probably wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > > 
> > > I've just built and re-built teTeX-2.0.2_5 from the ports and the
> > > following occurs:
> > > 
> > > [rbm49 at 131.203.240.72] ~/temp $ cat test.tex 
> > > 
> > > \documentclass{article}
> > > \begin{document}
> > > This is really minimal.
> > > \end{document}
> > > 
> > > [rbm49 at 131.203.240.72] ~/temp $ latex test.tex
> > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> > > latex: fatal: Item 0 (=52497347) of .fmt array at 921e000 >4739.
> > 
> > Seems to be fine on a clean 5.2-RC install (soon 5-CURRENT) here:
> 
> [rbm49 at 131.203.240.72] ~ $ uname -a
>     FreeBSD 131-203-240-72.remote.comnet.co.nz 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD
>     4.10-STABLE #3: Thu Jun 3 14:58:15 NZST 2004
>     root at 131-203-240-72.remote.comnet.co.nz:/usr/src/sys/compile/MUGGINS
>     i386
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > %ls /var/db/pkg |grep TeX
> > teTeX-2.0.2_5
> > teTeX-base-2.0.2
> > teTeX-texmf-2.0.2
> 
> ditto
> 
> > Did you upgrade an existing installation (your phrase `built and
> > re-built' confuses me)? You could try deinstalling, wiping
> > /usr/local/share/texmf (if there's still something) and reinstalling.
> 
> I've upgraded from the previous version with portupgrade, then tried
> `make deinstall' / `make reinstall', and finally `pkg_delete -f' and
> `make clean && make && make install && make clean'. All of these
> resulted in the same problem. I would prefer not to have to delete the
> whole tree, I've a good number of additional fonts &c. that I'd prefer
> not to have to install from scratch.
> 

Could you try saving the old /usr/local/share/texmf to some other
location, deinstalling, reinstalling and copying everything except *.fmt
files back then?

-- 
DoubleF
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