Segmentation Fault while loading format file

[Peter Wilson]

My linux system is i386. I have no inention of getting a new machine.

Peter W.


On 28/06/21 16:27, Alois Steindl wrote:
> Hello,
> I would bet that this error is a long term consequence of the error 
> brought up by Andreas Hirsch 3 weeks ago: The latex.fmt files seem to 
> be inconsistent across different platforms. So it might be necessary 
> to keep different fmt-files, each one generated by the corresponding 
> binary. (I have no idea, whether it is possible to individually 
> configure the location of the proper fmt-file.) Maybe the simplest 
> solution would be to have just one platform, say x86_64 on a machine. 
> Are the linux systems that old, that you need to keep the i386 binaries?
> Good luck
> Alois
>
> Am 28.06.2021 um 11:42 schrieb Martin Preen:
>> Hi all,
>> we currently have a problem with TL on i386-linux platforms.
>> The error appeared after one of the updates last week.
>>
>> #> latex qwerty.tex
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021) 
>> (preloaded format=latex)
>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>>
>> Even with no source file (qwerty.tex doesn't exists) and also with
>> other format files (e.g. pdflatex) every latex command fail.
>>
>> It is a network installation and there are no problems with
>> the binaries for the x86_64-linux and x86_64-solaris platforms.
>>
>> The segmentation fault signal seems to occur when loading the format 
>> file.
>> strace output of failing process:
>>
>> open("/.../texlive2021/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt", 
>> O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
>> _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
>> read(3, "\37\213\10..."..., 8192) = 8192
>> brk(0x8f05000)                          = 0x8f05000
>> ...
>> read(3,"\326\22m..."..., 8192) = 8192
>> read(3, "\335p+G\23...."..., 8192) = 8192
>> --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=NULL} ---
>> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>>
>> Is there anything we can do here ?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
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>>
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