Re: lost after upgrade

["George N. White III" <gnwiii@gmail.com>]

On 8/27/07, Jean Magnan de Bornier <jm.bornier@free.fr> wrote:

> Le 27 août à 12:38:38 "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> écrit notamment:
>
> | On 8/27/07, Jean Magnan de Bornier <jm.bornier@free.fr> wrote:
> | > Hi all,
> | > Yesterday I issued:
> | > ctxtools --updatecontext
> | > and everything seemed as usual.
> | > But when trying to compile a standard file, I get:
> | > ...
> | > ConTeXt  ver: 2007.08.20 22:17 MKII  fmt: 2007.8.21  int: english/english
> | >
> | > language        : language en is active
> | > system          : cont-new loaded
> | > (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
> | >
> | > FatalError      : Your format does not match the base files!
> | >
> | > FormatVersion   : 2007.08.20 22:17 MKII
> | > FilesVersion    : 2007.08.27 09:11
> | > ...
> | >
> | > and it fails. I tried to go to all the steps described in the wiki (for
> | > texlive install), no joy :-(
> >
> | Try
> |     kpsewhich cont-en.fmt
> | or
> |    locate cont-en.fmt (after running updatedb)
> | It should point you to [something]/we2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt
> | Remove all the .fmt files inside that folder
> | ([something]/we2c/*/*.fmt): well, at least cont-en, you may leave the
> | latex format files untouched if any.
> >
> | Then run
> |     texexec --make --all
> | and try again.
> >
> Thanks Mojca,
> But strangely I got the same message after rebuilding! Then I remove again
> the fmt files and try ctxtools --updatecontext again; same thing again!
>
> I also tried with another file, no more success!

Did you do the step of finding and removing all the old .fmt files?

On my system, fmtuil-sys puts the cont-en.fmt formats in
texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/ and texmf-var/web2c/xetex/,
but the context tools put them under texmf-config, so it
is all easy to end up with multiple versions of the .fmt files.


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George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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