Weird Error on a New TeXLive Install on FreeBSD

Riya <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:33:23 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <CAFK6a1jRNhZ6CBcaWyp1U4=c7r95aruCNePO-68CLOVzJJCQiw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!

I have installed TeXLive 2026 on my laptop, running FreeBSD 15.0 RELEASE,
using the install.tl script. `tex --version` spits out the requisite digits
of pi. However, when I try and actually compile any LaTeX document, I get
an error of the form
>  /usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk11.clointernal
error; cannot read font names
This persists on both article and book doc classes.

The custom texlive.profile that I used is as follows
> binary_amd64-freebsd 1
> collection-basic 1
> collection-bibtexextra 1
> collection-binextra 1
> collection-context 1
> collection-fontutils 1
> collection-formatsextra 1
> collection-langother 1
> collection-latex 1
> collection-latexrecommended 1
> collection-mathscience 1
> collection-metapost 1
> collection-pictures 1
> collection-plaingeneric 1
> collection-xetex 1
> instopt_adjustpath 0
> instopt_adjustrepo 1
> instopt_letter 0
> instopt_portable 0
> instopt_write18_restricted 1
> tlpdbopt_autobackup 1
> tlpdbopt_backupdir tlpkg/backups
> tlpdbopt_create_formats 1
> tlpdbopt_desktop_integration 1
> tlpdbopt_file_assocs 1
> tlpdbopt_generate_updmap 0
> tlpdbopt_install_docfiles 1
> tlpdbopt_install_srcfiles 1
> tlpdbopt_post_code 1
> tlpdbopt_sys_bin /usr/local/bin
> tlpdbopt_sys_info /usr/local/share/info
> tlpdbopt_sys_man /usr/local/share/man
> tlpdbopt_w32_multi_user 1

Does anyone have any clue how to resolve this? I have already tried
reinstalling texlive to no avail.

Best,
Riya