stymied

[Sebastian Rahtz]

guravage@nlr.nl writes:
 > install level to ALL. The installation completed normally but LaTeX fails 
 > immediately upon invocation with the message: "Fatal format file error; I'm 
 > stymied." Well I am too. I suspect this is configuration problem that can 
 > easily be set right, but I haven't a clue. Can you please offer a word of 
 > advice.
do you have _ANY_ TEX* environment variables set? TEXMFLOCAL, for
instance? you are picking up an old "language.dat". What does
 kpsewhich language.dat
say?

sebastian