Bug#421969: texlive-base-bin: Huge number of etex and pdfetex sub-processes created
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Ok, so I suppose the following:
> - you (once, some time ago) had xmltex installed
> - then you removed it, but didn't purge it, so the config files did
> remain
> - upgrading swapped fmtutil into an endless loop because it tried to
> update the xmltex format (older versions were buggy) even if it is not
> installed, this goes into an infinite loop.
> - you installed the new xmltex version which fixes these problems
>
> Now you can remove (or purge) xmltex.
>
> I guess we can close this bug? Do you agree?
(nothing to close)
Does this happen generally when old xmltex configuration files are
present in a TeX Live 2007 installation? In this case we should do
something about it...
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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