From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6217 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Axel Zindler Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:06:39 +0100 (MET) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <2626.1006193199@www15.gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396758 8598 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:12:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6217 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6217 Hi all, after downloading the file pdftex-linux-20010417.zip from the ftp-archiv I wanted to make the new formats. Instead I'm getting: axel@asus:~> texexec --make TeXExec 2.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001 ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path? fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed. ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path? fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-nl -progname=context *cont-nl.ini' failed. This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INIMP) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/plain.mp Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.63) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-tool.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-spec.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-core.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-page.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-text.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-shap.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-butt.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-char.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-step.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-grph.mp) ) Beginning to dump on file metafun.mem (mem=metafun 2001.11.19) at most 2354 strings of total length 32081 32532 memory locations dumped; current usage is 10024&22419 1290 symbolic tokens Transcript written on metafun.log. ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path? TeX binary : pdfetex format(s) : en nl metafun mptopdf total run time : 4 seconds axel@asus:~> kpsewhich pdfetex.pool /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.pool the files pdftex.pool and pdfetex.pool had been updated. Any hints how I can find what's wrong?? Thanks Axel Zindler -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net