linuxxetex
I am a newbie to TeX.
I want to use XeLaTeX for my CV, but when I try to compile with Texmaker. a get an error saying:
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010)
restricted \write18 enabled.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!
What is the problem here? How can I fix it?
As rungs is also provided by Ghostscript, my guess is that you have an older installation of Ghostscript on your machine. Somehow, the PATH in TextMate is different than the path in your Terminal, and so the older version is getting called only within TextMate.
To test this, you can use TextMate's "Execute Line Inserting Result" (bound to ^R). In a new TextMate document, try the following commands:
which rungs
rungs -v
echo $PATH (note that TextMate adds its own resources to $PATH, so this will be different. Focus on the order of the system directories like /usr/texbin and /usr/local/bin.)
and check the result against your terminal. If this is indeed the problem, then you can solve this issue by manually setting the PATH variable in TextMate's advanced preferences window to be the same as in your Terminal.
Edit: Does this minimal example compile for you, with either XeLaTeX or pdfLaTeX? I used demo.eps from /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/doc/latex/guide-to-latex/demo.eps.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics{demo.eps}
\end{document}
! I can't write on file `skills.pdf'.
In this case, the error is caused by not having enough memory. The clone(...) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) error from strace prompted me to check my ram usage. Running xelatex with 150M of free ram provokes the write/clone() error. Running with at least 500M of free ram consistently avoids the error. I haven't experimented enough to know exactly how much free ram is enough, but I suppose that also depends on the complexity of the tex file.
To compensate, I created a swap file (fwiw, I usually don't have one).
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/512mb.swap bs=1M count=512
mkswap /var/512mb.swap
swapon /var/512mb.swap
Best Answer
try to run
sudo fmtutil-sys --allwhich should create all missing format files.