David Andel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)