[tex-live] LaTeX suddenly stopped working (loop/memory leak?)

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Sat Jun 30 15:41:01 CEST 2018 

I can tell you that the packages in Debian are working correctly, it must be something special on your system.

>From what you wrote it sounds like you had an HD error, or memory that resulted in some corruption.

I'm currently out in the mountains and cannot help much more, but can you please send me the list of files in /etc/texmf/, and all environment variables you have set which might be trusted to TeX, and your path, and the output of which mktexlsr, and any further information.

Thanks

Norbert

PS, this is not a list to discuss Debian's TeX Live, please use debian-tex-maint at lists.debian.org or the BTS, thanks


On June 30, 2018 1:20:53 PM GMT+02:00, Urs Liska <lists at openlilylib.org> wrote:
>
>
>Am 30.06.2018 um 12:59 schrieb Urs Liska:
>>
>>
>> Am 30.06.2018 um 12:36 schrieb Ulrike Fischer:
>>> Am Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:21:16 +0200 schrieb Urs Liska:
>>>
>>>>> Did you try to recreate the formats?
>>>> No, because I don't have any idea what that means.
>>> Then run
>>>
>>> fmtutil-sys --refresh
>>>
>>> or something like this.
>>>
>>
>> After looking at the manpage I issued this with sudo.
>> The end of the output is
>>
>> fmtutil [INFO]: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/aleph/lamed.fmt installed.
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `euptex -ini   -jobname=euptex 
>> -progname=euptex *euptex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `tex -ini   -jobname=tex -progname=tex 
>> tex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=luatex 
>> -progname=luatex luatex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `xetex -ini   -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex
>
>> -etex xetex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `ptex -ini   -jobname=ptex -progname=ptex 
>> ptex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `eptex -ini   -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex
>
>> *eptex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `uptex -ini   -jobname=uptex -progname=uptex
>
>> uptex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `aleph -ini   -jobname=aleph -progname=aleph
>
>> *aleph.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdftex 
>> -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini </dev/null' 
>> return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdfmex 
>> -progname=pdfmex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfmex.ini </dev/null' 
>> return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=amstex 
>> -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini </dev/null' 
>> return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=mex -progname=mex 
>> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *mex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=texsis 
>> -progname=texsis -translate-file=cp227.tcx texsis.ini </dev/null' 
>> return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=csplain 
>> -progname=csplain -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini </dev/null' return
>status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdfetex 
>> -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini </dev/null' 
>> return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `xetex -ini   -jobname=pdfcsplain 
>> -progname=pdfcsplain -etex csplain.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=pdfcsplain 
>> -progname=pdfcsplain -etex csplain.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdfcsplain 
>> -progname=pdfcsplain -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini </dev/null' return 
>> status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=mltex
>-progname=mltex 
>> -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mltex.ini </dev/null' return status
>1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=etex -progname=etex 
>> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=dviluatex 
>> -progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=mptopdf 
>> -progname=context -translate-file=cp227.tcx mptopdf.tex </dev/null' 
>> return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=eplain 
>> -progname=eplain -translate-file=cp227.tcx *eplain.ini </dev/null' 
>> return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=utf8mex 
>> -progname=utf8mex -enc *utf8mex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
>> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
>> fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 3
>> fmtutil [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 19
>> fmtutil [INFO]: Failed to build: 24 (euptex/euptex tex/tex 
>> luatex/luatex xetex/xetex ptex/ptex eptex/eptex uptex/uptex 
>> aleph/aleph pdftex/pdftex pdftex/pdfmex pdftex/amstex pdftex/mex 
>> pdftex/texsis pdftex/csplain pdftex/pdfetex xetex/pdfcsplain 
>> luatex/pdfcsplain pdftex/pdfcsplain pdftex/mltex pdftex/etex 
>> luatex/dviluatex pdftex/mptopdf pdftex/eplain pdftex/utf8mex)
>> fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 46
>> fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 24
>>
>> which seems to indicate a lot of problems...
>
>Hm, since it was time to make lunch anyway I decided to reinstall 
>texlive-full, after cleaning up the system with apt purge and a number 
>of reiterations of apt update, apt autoremove, apt purge etc.
>
>Reinstalling texlive-full through apt resulted in exactly the same 
>situation as before :-(
>
>So do I have to assume that the current version of texlive 
>(https://packages.debian.org/buster/texlive-full) is broken in Debian?
>I 
>would find that rather strange ...
>
>But still I'm not inclined to remove the package and install TL from
>its 
>installer - first, that just can't be the solution and second, I need
>TL 
>from the packages as part of some others' dependencies (the LilyPond 
>build system).
>
>So is there anything left for me to do?
>
>Thanks
>Urs


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