The newest fix-cm contains at the end some code to fix floats which imho doesn't belong there. The identical code is also in fixltx2e. \def\@xfloat #1[#2]{% .... \ProvidesPackage{fix-cm} [2014/04/27 v1.1p fixes to LaTeX] \ProvidesPackage{fixltx2e} [2014/04/27 v1.1p fixes to LaTeX] -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/