31421 2015-10-31 15:16:39 +0300 xelatex can't run in a freshly installed system 2018-06-05 16:55:59 +0300 1 1 4 Development Sisyphus texlive-xetex unstable all Linux CLOSED NOTABUG P3 normal --- 31414 1 imz kirill grenka qa-sisyphus oldest_to_newest 153394 0 imz 2015-10-31 15:16:39 +0300 texlive-xetex-2008.0-alt0.15.5 In a freshly installed system, the running of xelatex needs to do some initialization of some "cached" pre-computed files, but that process fails (because it doesn't want to work with sources which are too old). I guess this is a well-known problem with Sisyphus, but there hasn't been a bug report yet. Example file: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Foo. \end{document} Errors: xelatex foo This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.6 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt fmtutil: running `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' ... This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.6 (Web2C 7.5.7) (INITEX) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/latexconfig/xelatex.ini (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xetexconfig/unicode-letters.tex loading Unicode properties and character classes) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/texsys.cfg) ./texsys.aux found \@currdir set to: ./. Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path. Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser. catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file ! That is more than five years old. ! ! If you enter <return> to scroll past this message then the format ! will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files ! before continuing to build LaTeX. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!. l.545 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!} ? ! Emergency stop. l.545 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!} No pages of output. Transcript written on xelatex.log. Error: `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /home/imz/.texmf-var/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed warning: kpathsea: mktexfmt output `This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.6 (Web2C 7.5.7) (INITEX) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/latexconfig/xelatex.ini (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xetexconfig/unicode-letters.tex loading Unicode properties and character classes) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/texsys.cfg) ./texsys.aux found \@currdir set to: ./. Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path. Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser. catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file ! That is more than five years old. ! ! If you enter <return> to scroll past this message then the format ! will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files ! before continuing to build LaTeX. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!. l.545 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!} ? ! Emergency stop. l.545 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!} No pages of output. Transcript written on xelatex.log.' instead of a filename. I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'! Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sat Oct 31 15:10:47 171593 1 grenka 2018-06-05 16:55:59 +0300 apt-get install dblatex