[tex-live] problem in ltluatex.tex

[David Carlisle]

On 2 March 2016 at 18:40, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 07:53:34AM +0000, David Carlisle wrote:
>> the error looks a bit odd, but can you try with a current latex, it
>> looks like you have some files out of sync, you are using
>>
>> LaTeX2e <2015/01/01>
>>
>> there have been six latex  releases since then.
>>
>> 2015/01/01 patch level 1, 2015/01/01 patch level 2
>> 2015/10/01, 2015/10/01 patch level 1, 2015/10/01 patch level 2
>> 2016/02/01
>>
>> David
>
> Curiouser and curiouser.  Looking at '/', I seem to have been
> building this system since February 24th.
>
> ken at deluxe ~ $file `which latex`
> /opt/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/latex: symbolic link to pdftex
> ken at deluxe ~ $file `which pdftex`
> /opt/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex: ELF 64-bit LSB
> executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked,
> interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.4.1,
> stripped
>
> BUT
> ken at deluxe ~ $ls -l /opt/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 2144384 Apr 12  2015 /opt/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex
>
> ken at deluxe ~ $ls -l /opt/texlive/
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 4096 Mar  1 23:59 2015
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Mar  1 23:35 texmf-local
>
> Looking at my logs, /opt/texlive and all the directories under it
> were added by install-tl-unx.
>
> ĸen

The problem in your log was not the binary version but the version of
latex.ltx which is old

what does kpsewhich latex.ltx show?

David