[XeTeX] "I can't find the format file `xetex.fmt'!"

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 11 oct. 05 à 15:02, Malcolm Ross a écrit :

> I have the same error message as José below (after a large-scale  
> reinstallation which was not occasioned by XeTeX).
>
> I'm not sure I understand Herb's message below. Doing what I  
> thought he meant, I removed the xelatex.fmt and xetex.fmt files  
> from ~/Library/texmf/web2c/. The result when I ran XeTeX was this  
> error message:
>
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.95 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
>> fmtutil: no info for format `xelatex'.
>> I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!
>
> I would greatly appreciate advice.

After removing the files from ~/Library/texmf/web2c/, I would advise:

- Making sure you used the latest TeX i-Package to install TeX. If  
you did, then run the Configure stage only; if you get a sheet  
mentioning system-wide or per-user configuration, choose the option  
to remove per-user configurations. If the i-Package from which your  
TeX has been installed isn't the latest one, then update it and re- 
run the install completely (removing also per-user configurations if  
asked).

- Reinstall XeTeX using either the latest .pkg installer or the  
latest i-Package.

While installing (both TeX and XeTeX), I would advise putting ~/ 
Library/texmf/ out of the way (ie displace it somewhere else), and  
only after the complete install putting you personal additions in  
place one by one, running updmap-sys if need be.

Bruno Voisin