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

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 11, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Malcolm Ross wrote:

> 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:
>

Howdy,

After removing the fmtutil.cnf file from ~/Library/trexmf/web2c/ did  
you run the XeLaTeX install again? You may be able to just run the  
Configuration step again.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)