[tex-live] pdftex "bug" (?) on powerpc mac

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Hi all,

Since I reported on list this report form a GUT user, but it finally
looks like the problem needs investigation, I forward the relevant part
of it with rough translation. The example as the OP posted it can be
found at:

http://tug.org/~mpg/ECM.zip

HTH,
Manuel.

Here is the first message (excerpt):

Ici j'ai un autre problème je n'arrive pas à inclure des graphiques pdf.
je joints un ECM.
fourier-1.pdf à été fabriqué par la chaine mpost ps2pdf (mais par
mptopdf c'est la mème chose)
et l'autre est tiré de MAPLE et transformé par Aperçu sur Mac.

Dans les deux cas pdflatex cale en me disant 'espace insuffisant sur
votre disque'.

Avant mon passage à TexLive 2007, je n'avais pas de problème.

Basically:
I can't include pdf's (either from metapost or from Maple). Here is aCME
[attached]. In either case pdflatex blocks saying 'not enough space on
disk'. It used to worked with TL2007.

Then a second message, after I asked a few more questions:

Mon mac est un powerbook Titanium de 1Go de mémoire, le disque a plus de
30Go de libre. architecture G4.

version pdftex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.7 (Web2C 7.5.6)

voici la sortie de la commande
============
omr:~/Desktop/LIVRE/ECM michel$ pdflatex ECM
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.7 (Web2C 7.5.6)
entering extended mode
(./ECM.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/base/bk11.clo))
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/geometry.cfg))
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def)))
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/Users/michel/Library/texmf/tex/latex/babel/frenchb.ldf
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)
*************************************
* Local config file frenchb.cfg used
*
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg)))
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/lm/lmodern.sty)
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
No file ECM.aux.
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/lm/t1lmr.fd)
(/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
) <G1plot1.pdf, id=1, 401.5pt x 401.5pt> <use G1plot1.pdf>
Overfull \hbox (0.24533pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 14--15
[][]
<fourier-1.pdf, id=2, 84.84288pt x 53.90518pt> <use fourier-1.pdf>
[1{/usr/loca
l/gwTeX/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map} <./G1plot1.pdf>
<./four
ier-1.pdf>] (./ECM.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional
information){/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.tex
live/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-ec.enc}</usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/type1/p
ublic/lm/lmr10.pfb>pdflatex: ECM: No space left on device
omr:~/Desktop/LIVRE/ECM michel$
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Il y a interaction avec le système car pendant l'exécution, le
déchargement de TeXLive2008 qui se faisait en parallèle c'est interrompu
avec le message 'manque de place sur le disque'.

Basically:

My mac is a powerbook Titanium with 1Gb RAM, G4 architecure, more than
30Gb available disk space. [According to wikipedia, this is a powerpc.]

Follows version and screen output of compiling the previous example, then...

It interacts with the system since during execution, unloading [?] of
TeX Live that was running in the background stopped with the message 'no
more space on disk'.