https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803751
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803751#c11
Christian Boltz
Sorry but I'm not able to reproduce!
I just hit the same problem on 12.3 final (with all updates installed, tex freshly installed today) Maybe this only happens when only a minimal set of tex packages is installed because of some missing dependencies? (I'd guess you have lots of them installed on your development system, which can hide dependency problems ;-)
Beside this the formats are build during install here and stored below /var/lib/texmf/web2c as it should be. I've tested this several times.
The question rises why this had failed with your installation.
Do you have used rpm, YaST2, or zypper for installation? In all cases I'd like to see the log files! For YaST2/zypper this is /var/log/zypper.log
If needed, I can provide zypper.log (but I doubt it's needed, see the end of this comment). I touched all /var/run/texlive files mentioned in comment #2 and run the scripts in /var/adm/update-scripts. They didn't report any error ($?=0), but I still get # latex 31894_7f8f196342ec378e75b3cf6f339d3494.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/TeX Live for SUSE Linux) restricted \write18 enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! (some time later) Looks like a missing dependency - "zypper in --no-recommends texlive-bin" fixes the problem. I'd guess texlive-pdftex-bin should require texlive-bin (or one of the 88 packages texlive-bin drops in - but google results suggest that /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx is the missing file, which is directly in texlive-bin) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.