On Mon, 19 Jun 2023, Herbert Voss wrote: Herbert,
I'm the only user of this host.
fmtutil-sys --all
$ fmtutil-sys --all fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order): fmtutil: /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes: fmtutil: /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf fmtutil [ERROR]: format directory not writable: /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-var/web2c Huh. Looks okay to me: $ ll /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-var/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 23 15:52 fonts/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3689 Jun 14 06:03 ls-R drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 23 15:50 luametatex-cache/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 23 15:50 luatex-cache/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 23 14:35 tex/ drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 23 15:50 web2c/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 14:35 xdvi/
and sudo fmtutil-sys --all
... ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed `pdfetex -ini -jobname=bamstex -progname=bamstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx bamstex.ini' failed What do I read to learn how to properly build amstex and bamstex?
In this case you get local format or system format files.
Different errors when run by user and root. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
