Segmentation Fault while loading format file

[Martin Preen]

Hi all,
we currently have a problem with TL on i386-linux platforms.
The error appeared after one of the updates last week.

#> latex qwerty.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded format=latex)
  restricted \write18 enabled.
Segmentation fault


Even with no source file (qwerty.tex doesn't exists) and also with
other format files (e.g. pdflatex) every latex command fail.

It is a network installation and there are no problems with
the binaries for the x86_64-linux and x86_64-solaris platforms.

The segmentation fault signal seems to occur when loading the format file.
strace output of failing process:

open("/.../texlive2021/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
read(3, "\37\213\10..."..., 8192) = 8192
brk(0x8f05000)                          = 0x8f05000
...
read(3,"\326\22m..."..., 8192) = 8192
read(3, "\335p+G\23...."..., 8192) = 8192
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=NULL} ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

Is there anything we can do here ?


Regards,
Martin

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Martin Preen, Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik
Georges-Koehler-Allee 52, Raum EG-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany

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