Pierre Barbier de Reuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: texlive-base-bin > Version: 2007-7 > Followup-For: Bug #421969
I doubt this is the same thing. > 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. Are there any logfiles in /tmp/, with fmtutil or similar in the name? Please send the youngest one as an attachment. Furthermore, we need your /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)