Re: Fatal format file error; I'm stymied

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	 Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Subject: Re: Fatal format file error; I'm stymied
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:17:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472ADD28.8090106@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY128-W3E9452450A8AD06D641E6978D0@phx.gbl>

Ernesto Schirmacher wrote:
> After many years as a LaTeX user I'm attempting to switch over to ConTeXt.  
> 
> I recently upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 7.10 (on an AMD64 machine) and got the TeXLive and ConTeXt packages from the Ubuntu repositories.  I tried compiling a very simple document:
> 
> \starttext
> 
> Hello this is \ConTeXt.
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> using the command: texexec simple.tex and got the following output on my terminal:
> 
> TeXExec | processing document 'simple.tex'
> TeXExec | no ctx file found
> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
> TeXExec | TeX run 1
> TeXExec | writing option file simple.top
> TeXExec | using randomseed 898
> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> %$-line parsing enabled.
> (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
> ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> TeXExec | runtime: 0.177424
> 
> 
> Clearly something is not working properly and I suspect the incompatibility between 
>    This is pdfTeXk...
> and
>    ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex 
> is the source of all trouble here.
> 
> Could someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this?

pdfetex is obsolete now; there should only be a pdftex binary

since ubunto is based on debian i assume that they use the same 
packages, so i cc to norbert

Hans

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