On 25.07.09 Robert G. Ristroph ([email protected]) wrote: Hi,
> The reason why I presume this is not the same as #534199, is that > in the /tmp/tetex.fmutil.* log file, the file doesn't stop at the > "file older than 5 years" message. The message is a warning, and > the output of pdfetex continues after it. > Weird indeed. IIRC the problem consisted of two parts: 1. fmtutil failed if the "file older than 5 years" messages appeared 2. The format mllatex needs the scrollmode to generate the format successfully (this is #534199). As you had the version, which should have the fix for 1. you should only run in 2. . I'd expect that the generation of mllatex.fmt fails, but I can't find this message in your log. > However, after digging through some directories in a debian mirror, > I got the texlive-base-bin_2005.dfsg.2-13_i386.deb file and I > installed it with "dpkg -i" (the output above is from before that). > The install worked, and latex seemed mostly working afterwards. > Fine. > P.S. Why do you think Donald Knuth decided to warn himself against > processing files older than 5 years? The old guy probably has > many of those, right? > This is a warning from LaTeX, which was never written/maintained by DEK. I guess the LaTeX team would like to prevent people from using old versions of LaTeX and running in old old (long fixed) bugs. Greets, H. -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
