[tex-live] Segmentation fault (?)

[Axel E. Retif]

On  28 Jan, 2010, at 08:51, George N. White III wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Axel E. Retif <axel.retif at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> On  28 Jan, 2010, at 02:13, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> A few minutes ago I completed the update of TL 09 with tlmgr (gui-old, to which I'm accustomed)
>> 
>> Forgot to say ---in case it matters, this was on Ubuntu 9.10
> 
> Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit version of Ubuntu?

64-bit

> also updated via command-line a few minutes ago, but it didn't run fmtutil.

I had lagged behind in my TL update under Ubuntu (in my Mac, fmtutil was run a few days back).

> Ubuntu has had quite a few updates recently -- is your system current?

Yes, completely up to date.

> It doesn't look like the segmentation fault came from the pdftex format
> builds.   I tried a few installs using guiold and didn't enocunter any
> nasty behavours.   You might want to look through the logs (dmesg,
> messages.log, Xorg.0.log) for signs of trouble elsewhere in the system.

I just looked into these logs (and the previous archived) and didn't find the string ``Segmentation''. Also, the tlmgr.log ends just with the last item updated:

> [Thu Jan 28 01:05:04 2010] auto-install new: url (16814)

So I think it will remain a mystery for me. But, as I said, everything seems to be working fine.


Thank you.

Axel