[XeTeX] kpathsea problem??

[Mike Maxwell]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> You're using TeX Live, obviously. Your FMT files are mixed up. Could  
> be they are in your private ~/.texlive2007 tree – if so, remove them!  
> Your system will have its own. And they might work! 

Same error msg:
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(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/upzd.fd)kpathsea: Running 
mktextfm pzdr
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; 
nonstopmode; input pzdr
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6)
(Fatal base file error; I'm stymied)
grep: pzdr.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; 
input pzdr' failed to make pzdr.tfm.
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> If they do not  
> work, then 'sudo fmtutil-sys --all' should remake them. 

I tried this in two ways.  One was to first rename my ~/.texlive2007 dir 
to ~/.texlive2007.tmp; the other was just to change that dir name back, 
then rename all the .fmt files in it.  Both ways appear to fail the same 
way:
--------------------------
fmtutil: running `mf-nowin -ini   -jobname=mf -progname=mf 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx mf.ini' ...
! mf.pool doesn't match; tangle me again (or fix the path).
fmtutil: running `mpost -ini   -jobname=mpost -progname=mpost 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx mpost.mp' ...
! I can't read mp.pool; bad path?
--------------------------
and 300-some more similar lines.  I'm a little frustrated with these 
weird error msgs:
    mf.pool doesn't match;
Doesn't match what??
    tangle me again
Huh?
    (or fix the path)
What path?  Executables?  A kpse-something path?  What's supposed to be 
on the path?  If you'll pardon me for expressing my frustration, it's 
like some high school kid being a smart-aleck, so he figured he'd write 
error msgs that would be guaranteed to confuse his elders.

Having said that, I googled these error msgs.  One of the threads I came 
up with was this one, from the Debian developers:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg136194.html
Running those, 'locate' and 'kpsewhere' both give 
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mf.pool for mf.pool; I don't seem to have dlocate 
on my system (maybe it's Debian locate?).  At any rate, the rest of that 
thread doesn't seem to pertain to my problem.  But maybe the results 
will help y'all help me diagnose the problem.

> If they still  
> don't work, then it's probably time to re-install MacTeX. 

What's MacTex?

> I didn't install it [dblatex] with Fink, 

And what's Fink?

> This part of the documentation sounds like dblatex won't support  
> XeLaTeX...

I do some post-processing of the .latex file that dblatex produces, 
removing some of the packages and adding packages that xetex needs.  It 
was working before.
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    Mike Maxwell
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