cygwin install of tetex-20120119 broken.

[George Barrick]

Subject: cygwin install of tetex-20120119 broken.

                             2012.02.05.16:35:24 UT

Hey cygwin guys,

      I am a user of LaTeX under the cygwin GNU/Linux
emulator for Win32.  My box is a Dell Optiplex 380 with
an Intel Core2 2930 MHz CPU, 4.0 GBt memory that runs
WinXP Pro. version 2002 + SP3 (686-32).  I'm using
cygwin 1.7.8-1 due to the fact that the 1.7.9-1 has a
little bug that prevents GNU Octave (my favorite numerics
program) from piping its output to gnuplot.  Other than
that one .dll, my cygwin installation is up-to-date.

      The cygwin installer has brought a new set of
tetex-packages into its list this weekend.  These are
all associated with tetex-20120119.  This replaced all
of my previous tetex-3.0.0-3, but has suceeded in giving
me a broken tetex installation.  When I attempt to
compile previously well-behaved LaTeX documents, I get
only the message:

$ latex test0203.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

The compiler generates no .aux or .log files.  This comes
up with any input file that I attempt to use, and exhibits
the same behavior as pdflatex, but the particularly simple
input file in this case was the following:

<file test0205.tex>
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\pagestyle{empty}

\usepackage{amsmath}


\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}

  \item (5 pts.) Two forces push on a curling stone sitting on the ice.
     One is a force 54.8 $\mbox{N}$ pushing in
     the negative $y\mbox{-direction}$.  The other is a force
     32.1 $\mbox{N}$ pushing in the negative $x\mbox{-direction}$.  What
     are the magnitude and direction for the resultant force on the
     stone?  (Note: up/down would be the $z\mbox{-direction}$.)
     \vfill

     \begin{equation}
       \exp^{{}- x}=\cos{x}+\imath\sin{x}
     \end{equation}

     This is a vector $\mathbf{a}$. This is a constant $\mathrm{C}$.

\end{enumerate}

\end{document}
</file>

      I have looked through the cygwin setup.log.full
log-file in /var/log/, and scooped out the following
report.

<file: /var/log/setup.log.full>
###############################################################################
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /var/lib/texmf/web2c
for details.
###############################################################################

This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=eplain -progname=eplain
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx *eplain.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=latex -progname=latex
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=mllatex -progname=mllatex
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mllatex.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=mltex -progname=mltex
`       -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mltex.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=mptopdf -progname=context
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx mptopdf.tex' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=etex -progname=etex
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=texsis -progname=texsis
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx texsis.ini' failed
`xetex -ini  -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex
       -etex xetex.ini' failed
`xetex -ini  -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex
       -etex xelatex.ini' failed
</file>

     Most of these configuration failures seem to come up from
an inability to find the winmm.dll.:

<file: /var/log/setup.log.full>
fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini -jobname=texsis -progname=texsis
         -translate-file=cp227.tcx texsis.ini' ...
1 [main] pdftex 3792 D:\cygwin\bin\pdftex.exe: *** fatal error
  - could not load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487
</file>

The winmm.dll is right where it should be: C:/WINDOWS/system32/winmm.dll.
The error from the fmtutil xetex-run was:

<file: /var/log/setup.log.full>
fmtutil: running `xetex -ini   -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex
         -etex xetex.ini' ...
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011) (INITEX)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/xetex.ini
! I can't find file `unicode-letters'.
l.12 \input unicode-letters
</file>

I have not yet visited the log-files in /var/lib/texmf/web2c.
I can supply the setup.log.full if it helps any readers of
this post to analyze the problem (it is about 4 MBt of dense
text).  Also, I will look in /var/lib/texmf/web2c.

     Anyway, I guess I am just hoping that there are some
cygwin-tetex users out there who can both reproduce my
problem, and are sophisticated beyond my own experience
enough to figure out what is broken.  I have also posted
a message like this on the tex.live newsgroup at
address@hidden

Thanks for your attention,

George                        g_barrick_at_walsh_dot_edu