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

[Urs Liska]

Am 30.06.2018 um 13:30 schrieb Ulrike Fischer:
> Am Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:20:53 +0200 schrieb Urs Liska:
>
>> So is there anything left for me to do?
> latex isn't in the list of format failures. Did you check if it
> works again?
>

Yes, I checked, no it doesn't work (i.e. the original state of when I 
reported first).
OTOH, tex *is* in the list of format failures, yet it *does* work.