pdflatex does not work on win after todays update but does on linux

[George N. White III]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 at 17:24, Andreas Hirsch <
cursus.publicus at sacrumromanumimperium.org> wrote:

> Hi Siep,
>
> Siep Kroonenberg schrieb am 12.06.2021 um 15:09:
>
> > With me, the last line of output with KPATHSEA_DEBUG=-1 is:
> >
> > kdebug:fsyscp_xfopen(
> 192.168.101.1/tldev/Master/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt [], rb) =>
> 0x6f6a3068
> >
> >> Does it always crash at the same place?  If a document depends on many
> >> packages, does pdflatex --recorder always generate the same .fls file?
> >
> > PWD x:/textest/lin_regression
> > INPUT //192.168.101.1/tldev/Master/texmf.cnf
> > INPUT //192.168.101.1/tldev/Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf
> > INPUT //192.168.101.1/tldev/Master/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt
> >
> > gdb --args pdflatex lin_regression
> >
> > Reading symbols from pdflatex...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> > (gdb) r
> > Starting program: \\192.168.101.1\tldev\Master\bin\win32\pdflatex.exe
> lin_regression
> > [New Thread 4776.0x330]
> > [New Thread 4776.0x21c]
> > [New Thread 4776.0x5dc]
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021/W32TeX)
> (preloaded format=pdflatex)
> >   restricted \write18 enabled.
> >
> > Thread 1 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x6f751780 in pdftex!dllpdftexmain ()
> >     from \\192.168.101.1\tldev\Master\bin\win32\pdftex.dll
> >
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x6f751780 in pdftex!dllpdftexmain ()
> >     from \\192.168.101.1\tldev\Master\bin\win32\pdftex.dll
> >
> > I have also been piddling around with the utilities from
> > sysinternals.com, in particular procmon / process monitor. But it
> > gives you a deluge of data in which you have to search for the
> > relevant stuff.
>
> the relevant stuff may be hidden inside Windows libraries.


> same for me - I'm not able to extract the relevant information
>
> As I wrote in previous mail, the problem occured at two different
> Windows 10 machines (20H2 versus 21H1), different manufacturer and
> nothing has been changed than a TeXLive-Update BUT the error occurred at
> the same time
>

Both 20H2 and 21H1 may share some "fixes".

>
> I would regard it helpful if we can determine that the combination of
>
> Win 10 + pdflatex (pdftex.dll) + LaTeX 2021-06-01
>
> is not the culprit.
>
> Maybe it is only the culprit if the installation is on an network-share?
>

I can reproduce the problem  in 21H1when texlive 2021 is on a Samba share.
Several years ago I did use a network installation, but gave it up because
it had
some differences from a Windows install and my reason for using it was to
support
colleagues who are stuck with Windows due to policies at their lab.

Windows Reliability Monitor gives a report:

   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Source
pdflatex.exe

Summary
Stopped working

Date
‎2021-‎06-‎12 6:35 PM

Status
Report sent

Description
Faulting Application Path:
\\[server].local\Data\TeX\texlive\2021\bin\win32\pdflatex.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: pdflatex.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 5ecf5639
Fault Module Name: pdftex.dll
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 608b3a31
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00061780
OS Version: 10.0.19043.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 4105
Additional Information 1: 2beb
Additional Information 2: 2beba6fb4680d73a8c78ca7c24ccdb46
Additional Information 3: 2a02
Additional Information 4: 2a026af420aaae85b259f6113f172538

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 37c6722e6c201e29fe7178a1fb37b8c9 (2193667130605942985)
   ------------------------------------------------------
Exception Code: c0000005 is "access violation" which corresponds to SIGSEGV.

I also tried mapping the network share:

PS D:\TeX\Testing\sample2e>
'\\localhost\D$\TeX\texlive\2021\bin\win32\pdflatex.exe' sample2e
warning: kpathsea: //localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/bin/win32: Unrecognized
variable construct `$/'.
[... many more kpathsea warnings ]
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021/W32TeX)
(preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
[... many more kpathsea warnings ]
entering extended mode
(//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
LaTeX2e <2021-06-01>
L3 programming layer <2021-06-01>
(//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2021/02/12 v1.4n Standard LaTeX document class
(//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdfte
x.def)
No file sample2e.aux.
[... warnings]
[2] [3] (./sample2e.aux) )
[... warnings]
{//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/enc
/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-ts1.enc}[...
warnings]<//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fo
nts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-
dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021
/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texli
ve/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi7.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX
/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb><//localhost/
D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb><//loca
lhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr17.pfb><
//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr6.
pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/
cmr7.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfont
s/cm/cmr8.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/am
sfonts/cm/cmsy10.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/pu
blic/amsfonts/cm/cmsy7.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/ty
pe1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmti10.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/f
onts/type1/public/cm-super/sfrm1000.pfb>
Output written on sample2e.pdf (3 pages, 153682 bytes).
Transcript written on sample2e.log.


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George N. White III
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