Comment # 4 on bug 1176557 from G.M. Venekamp

As stated in the opening comment, I eddited /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf. I did
this because I found these lines:

# from latex-bin:
latex pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini
pdflatex pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini
dvilualatex luatex language.dat,language.dat.lua dvilualatex.ini
lualatex luatex language.dat,language.dat.lua lualatex.ini
luajitlatex luajittex language.dat,language.dat.lua lualatex.ini

The last three mention luatex as second word. Well actually the last line does
not... But in the opening comment I refer to three lines and not two.

Anyway, I took a leap of faith and changed those into:
dvilualatex lualatex language.dat,language.dat.lua dvilualatex.ini
lualatex lualatex language.dat,language.dat.lua lualatex.ini
luajitlatex luajitlatex language.dat,language.dat.lua lualatex.ini

Well, again, there's really only two lines: dvilualatex and lualatex.

After running 'fmtutil --byfmt lualatex.fmt' as root and thereby regenerating
what ever needs to regenerated, the lualatex command no-longer failed. That was
my solution and I could continue. Actually, I was using beamer to create a
presentation, but that is besides the point.

Given your solution to a fix, I though it would be best to revert the changes I
made to the /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf file and rerun the fmutil command as
root again. Doing so caused the lualatex command to fail as it originally did.
So, that gave me a reasonable starting point to test your suggestion. It only
seemed fair to me to go back to the original state.

After applying your solution, the lualatex finished without error as well. I
just tested a quick and simple TeX document and that seems to run just fine.
Running luatex yields in a readable pdf. To be clear this is your suggested
fix.

Hope this helps,
Gerben