Rafal Czlonka wrote: > Package: texlive-base-bin > Version: 2007-5 > Severity: critical > > Hi, > When the postinst script runs and it comes to 'Building formats', after > several minutes of doing so, the system runs out of memory. The process > "eats" all the available memory, both phisical (512MB RAM) and virtual > (1GB swap). After that the system simply freezes and is unrecoverable.
Do you have xmltex installed? If yes, then this is a (well known and often reported) problem in xmltex. Solution: Remove xmltex, install texlive-base-bin, reinstall xmltex. cheerio ralf
