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

[Urs Liska]

Am 30.06.2018 um 12:59 schrieb Urs Liska:
>
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> 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...

Hm, since it was time to make lunch anyway I decided to reinstall 
texlive-full, after cleaning up the system with apt purge and a number 
of reiterations of apt update, apt autoremove, apt purge etc.

Reinstalling texlive-full through apt resulted in exactly the same 
situation as before :-(

So do I have to assume that the current version of texlive 
(https://packages.debian.org/buster/texlive-full) is broken in Debian? I 
would find that rather strange ...

But still I'm not inclined to remove the package and install TL from its 
installer - first, that just can't be the solution and second, I need TL 
from the packages as part of some others' dependencies (the LilyPond 
build system).

So is there anything left for me to do?

Thanks
Urs