Bug#420559: texlive-base-bin: installation freezes system - uninstallable
David Andel <andel@ailab.ch> wrote:
> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2007-5
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> The installation procedure starts mktexfmt which in turn starts etex
> and pdfetex instances. They are being started until memory is full and
> the system freezes. I have had over 800 instaces of etex. It also
> does'nt recover with time. The first time I have waited 14 hours.
> My work around so far has been to 'killall mktexfmt {,pdf}etex' twice
> during installation, so it's left uninstalled.
This might be related to recent similar failures with xmltex (or was it
jadetex?), as well as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315762
We'll investigate this later.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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