[XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

[John Was]

Hello Wilfred

Thanks very much for the suggestion.  I eventually gave up on the kind of cure that would have allowed me to understand what had happened, and reverted to the previous day's checkpoint (I'd actually forgotten that Restore implemented an automatic checkpoint every 24 hours).  It looks very much like a Registry corruption but I'll never really know now!

Best wishes


John




----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wilfred van Rooijen 
  To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. 
  Sent: 12 June 2013 00:24
  Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX


  I am not really a hero with Windows, but maybe:

  - Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Software, and remove everything related to TeXLive
  - Check the directories manually and manually remove any remaining files / directories
  - Install TeXLive from scratch

  Hopefully this will give you a clean system. Backup any personal material you may have put into the texmf tree. Otherwise, maybe you can find a "registry cleaning tool", maybe on SourceForge or similar?

  Cheers,
  Wilfred






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    From: John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com>
    To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. <xetex at tug.org> 
    Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:02 AM
    Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX


    I'm afraid I've run into something rather more serious.  I installed the 
    2012 DVD and all went OK, but now from the command prompt I get

    (null): fatal: Can't determine where the executable xetex is.

    If I go manually to the TeXLive directory and click on xetex.exe (which 
    certainly is there), for a microsecond I get a DOS prompt box flashing up 
    but it immediately disappears.

    The PATH environment is OK so I'm rather stumped - I think it's probably a 
    Registry corruption, but any other ideas would be welcome!

    Best wishes


    John


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
    To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <xetex at tug.org>
    Sent: 11 June 2013 16:02
    Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX



    Am 11.06.2013 um 16:26 schrieb John Was:

    > I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated 
    > version, which I guess I ought to as 2009 seems a long way off now).

    Instead of trying to install a newer xdvipdfmx (then this binary certainly 
    won't work because it would search its resources outside of TL '09), you 
    could update to a TL '13 pre-release…

    >  TL Manager isn't working either so it looks as if something rather nasty 
    > has happened!

    Does it see backups of the TL packages? Do you have made backups of your 
    system? Why not? A TL '09 manager does not work with any other release than 
    TL '09. And this release should still be available in the historic branch of 
    CTAN.

    --
    Greetings

      Pete

    Upgraded, adj.:
    Didn't work the first time.




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