TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ Fatal Format File Error

[0815georg]

Hi,

I installed TeX Live 2013 (30. June) via install-tl -gui as a user on a machine without root access, extended PATH appropriate and for this minimal example.

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Hallo
\end{document}

I get the following error message.

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$ latex test.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
---! /usr/local.hg/app/teTeX/current/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

Obviously something with the system wide installation, but as mentioned before, I have no admin rights, it worked with TeX Live 2012 using the same installation procedure with all default values (expect the installation path) the install GUI is offering.

What can I do?

thanks a lot for your help,
Georg

[localghost]

Does the corresponding page of UK TeX FAQ help in this regard?


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[0815georg]

thanks for your fast request, but since I have no root access that does not help to much, I should have mentioned that I tried this before

$ fmtutil --byfmt=latex.fmt

as well as

$ fmtutil --all
fmtutil: format directory `/usr/local.hg/app/teTeX/current/texmf-var/web2c' is not writable.

give the same error message, Georg

[localghost]

Install as root.

[0815georg]

I cannot install it as a root, since I don't have the permission, its an office machine!

Is that the only possibility?

[localghost]

Which is the operating system (Linux distribution)?

[0815georg]

It's Fedora 17 (BeefyMiracle) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64

[localghost]

No idea. I suggest to ask the administrator.

[0815georg]

The only problem was that TEXMFVAR was set to

TEXMFVAR=/usr/local.hg/app/teTeX/current/texmf-var

simply doing

export TEXMFVAR=

solves the problem...

nevertheless, thank you very much for your efforts, Georg

[0815georg]

Just an additional remark,

unset TEXMFVAR

is a slightly better solution, Georg