Hi Frank!
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:34:13PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Hi Wolfram,
>
>
> Wolfram Quester <wolfi@mittelerde.physik.uni-konstanz.de> schrieb:
>
[..snip..]
> > Hi alltogether!
> >
> > Today I updated my PowerBook running unstable and got the following:
> >
> > Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-11) ...
> [...]
> > Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> > /usr/bin/fmtutil: line 730: 3112 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${1+"$@"}
> > Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini'
>
> any progress on this? Have you tested our suggestions? Is the bug still there?
>
> Regards, Frank
I did not write for this long time because I wanted to test this. As far
as I can see now you can safely close this bug. The problem was
reproducable under certain circumstances. If my powerbook was running
for some hours under a 2.4 kernel it started to show symptoms like
discribed above. One time I did a heavy compilation and gcc segfaulted.
In the tetex-case obviously fmtutil produced a high enough load to
provoke this symptom. It was the first occurence and reproducability was
bad since my PB was not running long enough most times. And then I did
not associate these occurrences. The tetex-thing was reproducable since
it was the highest load I produced during this time and I took care
about it mostly in the evenings.
The whole stuff went away since I updated to kernel 2.6. I tested this
for a while and wanted to tell you about it since the beginning of this
week, but I had no time to do so. I'm sorry for that.
> --
> Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
> Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
Thanks for your work,
Wolfi
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