[OS X TeX] Unable to install TeX Foundation and Programs

[Gerben Wierda]

On Saturday, Nov 16, 2002, at 03:05 Europe/Amsterdam, Henrik Holm wrote:

> Additional information:  It *seems like* the configuration stops on one
> of the first 'grep's in the configuration perlscript: here is an 
> excerpt
> from a regular 'top':
>
> ----
> 23125 login       0.0%  0:00.95  1   12   33   240K   424K   572K  
> 13.7M
> 23117 Preview     0.0%  0:02.82  2   65  147  1.70M  13.5M  17.7M  
> 55.5M
> 23107 grep        0.0%  0:00.01  1    9   14    60K   420K   308K  
> 1.38M
> 23106 sh          0.0%  0:00.13  1    9   15   352K   764K   832K  
> 2.04M
> 23105 sh          0.0%  0:00.01  1    9   13    80K   764K   492K  
> 1.79M
> 23102 perl        0.0%  0:00.10  1    9   14   264K   348K   492K  
> 1.27M
> 23014 i-Installe  2.5%  2:16.61  5  124  247  5.23M  14.2M  20.8M  
> 55.1M
> ----
>
> As indicated, the PID of the configuration script is 23102, then there
> are two 'sh's and one 'grep' -- and then no other process before the
> Preview that I started later.

The two sh are part of teTeX ("ps laxww" will show you complete 
arguments and programs) and grep is run from there. What *might* be the 
case is that some part of texcconfig is taking a lot of time. This 
might happen when your HOME environment variable has an extra '/' at 
the end (the old installer checked for that, I'll put that in the new 
package as well when I get around to that later), something you have to 
tinker in NetinfoManager for so it is highly unlikely. Another 
possibility is that you have a lot of files in ~/Library/texmf (like an 
old texmf tree).

In any case, the first thing to try is to be *very* patient and wait 
for *hours* before deciding something is really hanging. (Moving 
~/Library/temf out of the way if it exists might be a good idea anyway).

Using "ps laxww" when the ocnfiguration script is running might tell 
you (and me) more.

G


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