Bug#421242: system run out of memory while building formats
Rafal Czlonka wrote:
> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2007-5
> Severity: critical
>
> Hi,
> When the postinst script runs and it comes to 'Building formats', after
> several minutes of doing so, the system runs out of memory. The process
> "eats" all the available memory, both phisical (512MB RAM) and virtual
> (1GB swap). After that the system simply freezes and is unrecoverable.
Do you have xmltex installed? If yes, then this is a (well known and often
reported) problem in xmltex. Solution: Remove xmltex, install
texlive-base-bin, reinstall xmltex.
cheerio
ralf
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