[XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

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





>________________________________
> 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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