From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37167 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ernesto Schirmacher Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Fatal format file error; I'm stymied Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 22:38:09 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193971122 28186 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2007 02:38:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 02:38:42 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 02 03:38:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InmQj-0007Uo-Ke for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:38:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928141FADB; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 03:38:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04979-05; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 03:38:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE931FAD4; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 03:38:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094781FAD4 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 03:38:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06880-01-7 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 03:38:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from BAY0-OMC3-S10.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc3-s10.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.210]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4F11FAC0 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 03:38:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from BAY128-W3 ([65.55.133.38]) by BAY0-OMC3-S10.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:38:10 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [24.218.60.171] Importance: Normal X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Nov 2007 02:38:10.0052 (UTC) FILETIME=[6830C440:01C81CF9] X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:37167 Archived-At: 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? Thanks in advance, Ernesto ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________