Problematic install of babel-scottish

[hsmyers]

• [ ] I have read and acknowledged this HOWTO article:
  Submitting a MiKTeX problem report From \usepackage[scottish,english]{babel}, here are two failed attempts to install the downloaded (by MiKTeX) files for babel-scottish. It seems to revolve around the missing file hilatex-dev.fmt presumably needed for XeLaTeX. The internet seems strangely quiet if you attempt a search for this file, so I am at a loss in solving the update formats problem. There doesn't seem to be the necessary update button in the MikTeX Console to rebuld the language database. What should I try next?

Note, I now know that the hilatex-dev.fmt is an error, but it is not related to XeLaTeX. It still stops my attempt to rebuild the needed database.

C:\Users\hsmye>miktex --enable-installer formats buildmiktex --enable-installer formats build
security risk: running with elevated privileges
Incorrect usage: buildmiktex: unknown command

C:\Users\hsmye>miktex --enable-installer formats build
security risk: running with elevated privileges
Building format 'latex-dev' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'amstex' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'lualatex-dev' with engine 'luahbtex'...
Building format 'pdfcslatex' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'pdfcsplain' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'dviluatex' with engine 'luatex'...
Building format 'csplain' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'cslatex' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'mltex' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'bagpipe' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'lualatex' with engine 'luahbtex'...
Building format 'bplain' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'optex' with engine 'luatex'...
Building format 'bagpipex' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'dvilualatex-dev' with engine 'luatex'...
Building format 'dvilualatex' with engine 'luatex'...
Building format 'etex' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'lollipop' with engine 'pdftex'...
Building format 'hilatex' with engine 'hitex'...
Building format 'hilatex-dev' with engine 'hitex'...

Sorry, but: Windows API error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\Users\hsmye>

initexmf --dump
2024-04-25 11:43:37,451-0600 INFO  initexmf - Operating on the private (per-user) MiKTeX setup
2024-04-25 11:43:37,456-0600 INFO  initexmf - running: miktex --enable-installer formats build
2024-04-25 11:43:37,456-0600 INFO  initexmf.core - start process: miktex --enable-installer formats build
2024-04-25 11:45:32,696-0600 INFO  initexmf - this is MiKTeX Configuration Utility 5.5 (MiKTeX 24.3.31)
2024-04-25 11:45:32,696-0600 INFO  initexmf - this process (21316) started by cmd in directory C:\Users\hsmye with command line: initexmf --help
2024-04-25 11:45:32,696-0600 INFO  initexmf - Operating on the private (per-user) MiKTeX setup
2024-04-25 11:46:28,488-0600 ERROR initexmf - sub-process error output has been saved to 'C:\Users\hsmye\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\miktex\log\miktex_2024-04-25-114628.out'
2024-04-25 11:46:28,488-0600 FATAL initexmf - Windows API error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
2024-04-25 11:46:28,489-0600 FATAL initexmf - Info: existing="C:\Users\hsmye\AppData\Local\Temp\mik45435\hilatex-dev.fmt", path="C:\Users\hsmye\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\miktex/data/le/hitex\hilatex-dev.fmt"
2024-04-25 11:46:28,489-0600 FATAL initexmf - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\File\win\winFile.cpp
2024-04-25 11:46:28,489-0600 FATAL initexmf - Line: 376
2024-04-25 11:46:28,490-0600 INFO  initexmf - this process (16556) finishes with exit code 1

Sorry about the length; this is as close to an MWE as I can get.

BTW, have you ever seen a Windows install that buchered a user name? Notice the user name in the log files…

Almost forgot; here is the warning in a run with XeLaTeX

[{
    "resource": "/C:/Users/hsmye/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/tex/latex/babel-scottish/scottishgaelic.ldf",
    "owner": "LaTeX",
    "severity": 4,
    "message": "Package babel: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for\n(babel)\tthe language 'Scottish Gaelic' into the format.\n(babel)\tPlease, configure your TeX system to add them and\n(babel)\trebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns\n(babel)\tpreloaded for \\language=0 instead.",
    "source": "LaTeX",
    "startLineNumber": 41,
    "startColumn": 1,
    "endLineNumber": 41,
    "endColumn": 65536
}]

Sorry about the formatting of the message, but this is what a 'copy' returns.

New information, this is from my current run

(C:\Users\hsmye\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\tex/latex/babel-scottish\scottish.ldf (C:\Users\hsmye\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\tex/latex/babel-scottish\scottishgaelic.ldf

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
(babel)                the language 'Scottish Gaelic' into the format.
(babel)                Please, configure your TeX system to add them and
(babel)                rebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns
(babel)                preloaded for \language=0 instead on input line 41.

It clearly knows about the necessary files but can't seem to get to them.

[hsmyers]

You may think this is fixed, but a fresh copy of MiKTeX says no. Here is the badly formated message:

[{ "resource": "/C:/Users/hsmye/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/tex/latex/babel-scottish/scottishgaelic.ldf", "owner": "LaTeX", "severity": 4, "message": "Package babel: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for\n(babel)\tthe language 'Scottish Gaelic' into the format.\n(babel)\tPlease, configure your TeX system to add them and\n(babel)\trebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns\n(babel)\tpreloaded for \language=0 instead.", "source": "LaTeX", "startLineNumber": 41, "startColumn": 1, "endLineNumber": 41, "endColumn": 65536 }]

If this is a poorly phrased way of saying I need to rebuild the format, then I will do so and try again, but it seems to me that when your software downloads something, you should finish the install.