Re: Weird Error on a New TeXLive Install on FreeBSD

Hi!

After some obvious prodding, I realise that this only happens when I try to
run xelatex. pdflatex, latex, all of those can compile documents with no
issues, but running xelatex on say, a blank document that looks like

> \documentclass{article}
>
> \begin{document}
> Hello world!
> \end{document}

prompts a
> /usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clointernal
error; cannot read font names

Essentially, xelatex is having trouble reading  .clo files, which pdflatex
is not. I have no clue why, but I hope this helps!

Best,
Riya

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM Riya <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
>