(Please ignore this question if you've already been contacted by other
maintainers; I'm currently answering mails offline and have no idea when
I'll get a connection)
David Andel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
What are the arguments to these etex or pdfetex instances? Does
"xmltex" show up in each of them? If yes, this is a duplicate of
#419987.
In order to be able to install texlive, please remove xmltex.
Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
