updating TexLive2023: failed

[Rich Shepard]

Last July I set up a weekly cron job to update TexLive2023. It's worked
flawlessly until this morning when the attached mltex.log showed up in my
INBOX.

The mltex.log looks good, but what was not included in the log file but was
in the email message root sent me was the following:

fmtutil [INFO]: log file copied to: /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/mltex.log
fmtutil [INFO]: /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/mltex.fmt installed.
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini </dev/null' return status: 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: returning error due to option --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `tex -ini   -jobname=lollipop -progname=lollipop lollipop.ini </dev/null' return status: 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: returning error due to option --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=eplain -progname=eplain -translate-file=cp227.tcx *eplain.ini </dev/null' return status: 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: returning error due to option --strict
fmtutil [INFO]: disabled formats: 3
fmtutil [INFO]: successfully rebuilt formats: 49
fmtutil [INFO]: failed to build: 3 (pdftex/amstex tex/lollipop pdftex/eplain)
fmtutil [INFO]: total formats: 55
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 3

I want to learn why the log file suggested the update completed without
error but fmtutil found errors running pdftex.

Your thoughts?

Rich
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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023) (INITEX)  24 SEP 2023 05:48
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/web2c/cp227.tcx)
MLTeX v2.2 enabled
**mltex.ini
(/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/tex/mltex/config/mltex.ini
(/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/tex.ini
(/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
Preloading the plain format: codes, registers,
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macros,
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\tabs=\box12
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\p at renwd=\dimen15
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\footline=\toks11
\footins=\insert254
\topins=\insert253
 hyphenation
(/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)) ) )
Beginning to dump on file mltex.fmt
 (preloaded format=mltex 2023.9.24)
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4998 memory locations dumped; current usage is 116&4879
1087 multiletter control sequences
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14787 words of font info for 50 preloaded fonts
14 hyphenation exceptions
Hyphenation trie of length 6075 has 181 ops out of 35111
  181 for language 0
0 words of pdfTeX memory
0 indirect objects
No pages of output.
# actual command line used during this run
# pdftex -ini   -jobname=mltex -progname=mltex -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mltex.ini </dev/null