Bug#421969: texlive-base-bin: Huge number of etex and pdfetex sub-processes created

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Pierre Barbier de Reuille <p.barbierdereuille@free.fr> wrote:

> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2007-7
> Followup-For: Bug #421969

I doubt this is the same thing.

> While trying to upgrade this package, a huge number of etex and pdfetex
> sub-processes were created. Probably hundreds of them ! It ate all my
> memory (i.e. more than 2GB of RAM) and I had to kill them by hand to
> regain control over my computer. Obviously, the install then fails.

Are there any logfiles in /tmp/, with fmtutil or similar in the name?
Please send the youngest one as an attachment.  Furthermore, we need
your /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)