[tex-live] LaTeX suddenly stopped working (loop/memory leak?)

[Urs Liska]

Am 30.06.2018 um 12:36 schrieb Ulrike Fischer:
> Am Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:21:16 +0200 schrieb Urs Liska:
>
>>> Did you try to recreate the formats?
>> No, because I don't have any idea what that means.
> Then run
>
> fmtutil-sys --refresh
>
> or something like this.
>

After looking at the manpage I issued this with sudo.
The end of the output is

fmtutil [INFO]: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/aleph/lamed.fmt installed.
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `euptex -ini   -jobname=euptex -progname=euptex 
*euptex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `tex -ini   -jobname=tex -progname=tex tex.ini 
</dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex 
luatex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `xetex -ini   -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex 
-etex xetex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `ptex -ini   -jobname=ptex -progname=ptex 
ptex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `eptex -ini   -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex 
*eptex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `uptex -ini   -jobname=uptex -progname=uptex 
uptex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `aleph -ini   -jobname=aleph -progname=aleph 
*aleph.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdfmex -progname=pdfmex 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfmex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=mex -progname=mex 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *mex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=texsis -progname=texsis 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx texsis.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=csplain 
-progname=csplain -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdfetex 
-progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini </dev/null' 
return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `xetex -ini   -jobname=pdfcsplain 
-progname=pdfcsplain -etex csplain.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=pdfcsplain 
-progname=pdfcsplain -etex csplain.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdfcsplain 
-progname=pdfcsplain -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=mltex -progname=mltex 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mltex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=etex -progname=etex 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=dviluatex 
-progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=mptopdf 
-progname=context -translate-file=cp227.tcx mptopdf.tex </dev/null' 
return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=eplain -progname=eplain 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *eplain.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=utf8mex 
-progname=utf8mex -enc *utf8mex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 3
fmtutil [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 19
fmtutil [INFO]: Failed to build: 24 (euptex/euptex tex/tex luatex/luatex 
xetex/xetex ptex/ptex eptex/eptex uptex/uptex aleph/aleph pdftex/pdftex 
pdftex/pdfmex pdftex/amstex pdftex/mex pdftex/texsis pdftex/csplain 
pdftex/pdfetex xetex/pdfcsplain luatex/pdfcsplain pdftex/pdfcsplain 
pdftex/mltex pdftex/etex luatex/dviluatex pdftex/mptopdf pdftex/eplain 
pdftex/utf8mex)
fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 46
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 24

which seems to indicate a lot of problems...