Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: > Package: texlive-base-bin > Version: 2007-7 > Followup-For: Bug #421969
Why do you think this is related to #421969? > 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. This looks like #419987 and co. Do you have xmltex installed? Which version? cheerio ralf