[tex-live] Polyglossia breaks XeLaTeX

[Lars Madsen]

On 09/01/2012 06:16 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2012/9/1 Haines Brown <haines at histomat.net>:
>> On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 03:39:20PM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>>> the supplied evidence shows that your document definitely breaks under
>>> pdflatex, but then polyglossia requires xetex, so it's no surprise.
>>>
>>> what happens if you compile with xelatex? -- an example document would
>>> be good.
>>>
>>> robin
>>
>> Sorry I wasn't clearer: I _am_ compiling with xelatex. That's why I
>> couldn't make head or tail of the error message which appears to
>> assume otherwise. Here is a sample preamble:
>>
> No, the log file clearly says that pdflatex was used in your case.
> Look at the first two lines of the log.
>
>>    %!TEX TS-program = xetex
>>    %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>>
>>    \documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{article}
>>    \usepackage{xltxtra}
>>    \usepackage{xunicode,fontspec}
>>
>>    % \usepackage(csquotes} % conflicts with polyglossia
>>    % \usepacage{fullpage} % conflicts with polyglossia
>>    % \usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,sorting=nyt]{biblatex} %
>>                         % conflits with polyglossia.
>>
>>    \usepackage{polyglossia}
>>    \usepackage{xeCJK}                % fontspec for CJK commands
>>    \newfontfamily\Chinese{AR PL KaitiM GB}
>>    \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}
>>    \begin{document}
>>    ...
>>
>>
>> If I omit polyglosia, all other packages can be included and run fine.
>> If I include polyglossia, those packages marked as conflict can't be
>> included.
>>
>> Haines
>
>
>

have you tried converting it manually without relying on an editor. As 
Zdenek mentions, the log looks strange