[tex-live] MacTeX: luatex fmtutil failed

[Norbert Preining]

On Do, 25 Nov 2010, Robert Eckl wrote:
> fmtutil: fmtutil: unknown option `--no-error-if-no-format'. Try fmtutil
> --help for help.

Do you by chance have TL 2009 *AND* TL 2010 installed, and your preference
is set to use 2009?

What does 
	which fmtutil
say on the command line.

> In /usr/texbin is no luatex, but a link lualatex -> luatex. If I copy luatex
> to /usr/texbin i get fatal format file error. 

Your system seems quite hosed.

Best wishes

Norbert
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