texexec doesn't finish

texexec doesn't finish

[Boris Tschirschwitz]

Hi.

I am writing a short note in the hope that someone else ran into the same
problem and can tell me what to do before I have to start thinking:
I am using ConTeXt for a few weeks now without major problems.
Today I felt like updating to the latest version (Aug 21?).
Now when I try to generate even the simplest document (like 'texexec
--pdf test.tex), texexec never finishes and spawns huge numbers of perl
jobs.

Any hint what I did wrong?

Re: texexec doesn't finish

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello Boris,


Boris Tschirschwitz <boris@math.ubc.ca> writes:

> I am using ConTeXt for a few weeks now without major problems.
> Today I felt like updating to the latest version (Aug 21?).
> Now when I try to generate even the simplest document (like 'texexec
> --pdf test.tex), texexec never finishes and spawns huge numbers of perl
> jobs.
>
> Any hint what I did wrong?


Not really. Are there any old texexec programs in your PATH somewhere?
Could you be more specific about your system configuration
(Windows/Linux/...)? Can you find out where texexec spawns the new
perl jobs? Is there any hint in the output?

 
Patrick

Re: texexec doesn't finish

[Hans Hagen]

At 19:56 10/09/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I am writing a short note in the hope that someone else ran into the same
>problem and can tell me what to do before I have to start thinking:
>I am using ConTeXt for a few weeks now without major problems.
>Today I felt like updating to the latest version (Aug 21?).
>Now when I try to generate even the simplest document (like 'texexec
>--pdf test.tex), texexec never finishes and spawns huge numbers of perl
>jobs.
>
>Any hint what I did wrong?

This sounds strange ... how does your file look? Texexec does only start a 
new one when it calls metapost with embedded btex/etex code, so ...

does texutil --purge help?

Hans

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