Bug#208507: tetex-extra: listings package won't load with fancyvrb [TeX Capacity Exceeded]

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

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Benoit Plessis <benoit.plessis@univ-lemans.fr> wrote:

> I just made some test and in i'm not certain of what trigger what.
> It sent you a stripped down test file which don't compile here.
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=70844].
> but it seem that removing some packages make it work (removing listings
> definitely works :(), or
> just removing for exemple the pstricks colours definition or even the
> \chapter{One} line seem to do the trick but i don't understand why.

Hm, strange. Here it does compile with LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. As far as I
see, this is one of the rare cases where "TeX capacity exceeded" really
means what it says, not "Someone made a very stupid error". Namely, you
have to increase pools size.

I have pool_size = 1250000, and when I reduce it to 70000, I get an
error, too. However, I don't understand why the error message is

ERROR: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=47500].

Anyway, the pool_size value for current tetex is 1250000 by
default. Could you please give us the output of

ls -l /usr/share/texmf/web2c
ls -l /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

Thank you,

Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie