Hello all lovers of nice documents ;-) The subject says it all. When I start pdflatex it answers with an error: > pdflatex testltx This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) after rebuilding all formats (fmtutil --all) and the same error I used strace and discovered that the format loaded was "latex.fmt" ... More confusing: > pdflatex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) **testltx works as expected and uses pdflatex.fmt. Also pdfelatex works fine ... I am using teTeX-1.0.7 (teTeX-texmf-1.0.1) linux 2.2.14 gcc-2.95.2 glibc-2.1.2 Yours Uwe Koloska -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~koloska/ -- -- right now the web page is in german only but this will change as time goes by ;-)