From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30838 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Weber Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: gwTeX: FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! 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After step 4, I get the log file below - I then proceeded with step 5 an 6. Step 6 gave me an error msg saying the file exists, so I proceeded, and now it seems I am having a working ConTeXt installation. Thanks again! Matthias TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : Untitled output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt fmtutil: format directory `/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c' is not writable. Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.fmt'; will try `context.fmt'. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt fmtutil: format directory `/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c' is not writable. I can't find the format file `context.fmt'! return code : 256 run time : 1 seconds total run time : 2 seconds warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead On Sep 15, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2006, at 5:51 PM, Matthias Weber wrote: >>>> I can't locate any other copies of the files on my machine, >>>> either... > >> /Users/matthias/Library/texmf/web2c/cont-en.fmt >> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt >> > > Then you haven't looked very carefully. There are two, one in your > private texmf tree, most probably unwanted. To get things going > again, follow these commands: > > 1. rm -r /Users/matthias/Library/texmf/web2c > > 2. sudo su > > 3. rm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt > > 4. texexec --make --all > > At this point, try and see if your installation works again. If it > doesn't, you can either edit texmf.cnf or do this: > > 5. ln -s /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/pdfetex/cont- > en.fmt /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt > > 6. ln -s /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/pdfetex/cont- > nl.fmt /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-nl.fmt > > 7. texhash > > 5. and 6. have to go into one line; you probably can't copy them from > this mail. That should place the format in the right subdirectory. The > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context