[MiKTeX] MikTex Update

[Eric Berg]

Dear MikTex users:

I installed MikTex 2.9 and immediately tried to update it. There were about
25 packages I needed to update, and when I did I got a fatal error. This is
the log:

2016-12-17 18:34:45,498-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:45,538-0500 INFO initexmf - Registering root
directories...
2016-12-17 18:34:45,704-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:47,267-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:47,300-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping user root directory
(C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:34:47,300-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping user root directory
(C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:34:47,303-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for common root
directory (C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:34:47,348-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for common root
directory ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9")...
2016-12-17 18:34:51,376-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:51,828-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:51,856-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating language.dat,
language.dat.lua and language.def...
2016-12-17 18:34:51,936-0500 INFO initexmf - running: mkfntmap --verbose
--admin
2016-12-17 18:36:12,353-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:12,770-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:12,940-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:12,969-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping user root directory
(C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:36:12,969-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping user root directory
(C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:36:12,970-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for common root
directory (C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:36:13,005-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for common root
directory ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9")...
2016-12-17 18:36:16,808-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:17,137-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:17,379-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:39:03,359-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:39:03,385-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for user root
directory (C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:39:03,425-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for user root
directory (C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:39:03,448-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping common root
directory (C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:39:03,449-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping common root
directory ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9")...
2016-12-17 18:39:07,240-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:39:07,411-0500 FATAL initexmf - Windows API error 5: Access
is denied.

2016-12-17 18:39:07,411-0500 FATAL initexmf - Info: existing="C:\Program
Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe", new="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe.(old)"
2016-12-17 18:39:07,411-0500 FATAL initexmf - Source:
Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\File\win\winFile.cpp
2016-12-17 18:39:07,411-0500 FATAL initexmf - Line: 301
2016-12-27 13:38:41,776-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-27 13:38:41,809-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for user root
directory (C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-27 13:38:41,842-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for user root
directory (C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-27 13:38:41,945-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping common root
directory (C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-27 13:38:41,945-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping common root
directory ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9")...
2016-12-27 13:38:45,594-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-27 13:38:45,683-0500 FATAL initexmf - Windows API error 5: Access
is denied.

2016-12-27 13:38:45,683-0500 FATAL initexmf - Info: existing="C:\Program
Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe", new="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe.(old)"
2016-12-27 13:38:45,683-0500 FATAL initexmf - Source:
Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\File\win\winFile.cpp
2016-12-27 13:38:45,683-0500 FATAL initexmf - Line: 301


I have tried this several times, and I get the same result. Any ideas? I am
not very good with computers, and am trying to use Latex to type up a math
paper to submit to journals.

Thanks,

Eric

[Denis José Navas Vega]

Since you started installing MiKTeX, a possible practical solution for
the moment is the following:

-- Unistall
-- Install again.
-- Don't update.
-- Load the package manager and download the packages of interest.

That's all.

The problems you report has its origin in MiKTeX unistalling core
components and installing in a second update, the remaining
components. Sometimes something does not get well specified and we
encounter this problems.

In any future update I will procede, having backed up MiKTeX folders
(about four or five of them).

Post by Eric Berg
I installed MikTex 2.9 and immediately tried to update it. There were about
25 packages I needed to update, and when I did I got a fatal error. This is
2016-12-17 18:34:45,498-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:45,538-0500 INFO initexmf - Registering root
directories...
2016-12-17 18:34:45,704-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:47,267-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:47,300-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping user root directory
(C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:34:47,300-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping user root directory
(C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:34:47,303-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for common root
directory (C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:34:47,348-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for common root
directory ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9")...
2016-12-17 18:34:51,376-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:51,828-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:34:51,856-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating language.dat,
language.dat.lua and language.def...
2016-12-17 18:34:51,936-0500 INFO initexmf - running: mkfntmap --verbose
--admin
2016-12-17 18:36:12,353-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:12,770-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:12,940-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:12,969-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping user root directory
(C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:36:12,969-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping user root directory
(C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:36:12,970-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for common root
directory (C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:36:13,005-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for common root
directory ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9")...
2016-12-17 18:36:16,808-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:17,137-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:36:17,379-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:39:03,359-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:39:03,385-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for user root
directory (C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:39:03,425-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for user root
directory (C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:39:03,448-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping common root
directory (C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-17 18:39:03,449-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping common root
directory ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9")...
2016-12-17 18:39:07,240-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-17 18:39:07,411-0500 FATAL initexmf - Windows API error 5: Access
is denied.
2016-12-17 18:39:07,411-0500 FATAL initexmf - Info: existing="C:\Program
Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe", new="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe.(old)"
Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\File\win\winFile.cpp
2016-12-17 18:39:07,411-0500 FATAL initexmf - Line: 301
2016-12-27 13:38:41,776-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-27 13:38:41,809-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for user root
directory (C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-27 13:38:41,842-0500 INFO initexmf - Creating fndb for user root
directory (C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-27 13:38:41,945-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping common root
directory (C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9)...
2016-12-27 13:38:41,945-0500 INFO initexmf - Skipping common root
directory ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9")...
2016-12-27 13:38:45,594-0500 INFO initexmf - starting: MiKTeX
Configuration Utility (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit)
2016-12-27 13:38:45,683-0500 FATAL initexmf - Windows API error 5: Access
is denied.
2016-12-27 13:38:45,683-0500 FATAL initexmf - Info: existing="C:\Program
Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe", new="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe.(old)"
Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\File\win\winFile.cpp
2016-12-27 13:38:45,683-0500 FATAL initexmf - Line: 301
I have tried this several times, and I get the same result. Any ideas? I am
not very good with computers, and am trying to use Latex to type up a math
paper to submit to journals.
Thanks,
Eric
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Post by Eric Berg
2016-12-17 18:39:07,411-0500 FATAL initexmf - Windows API error 5: Access
is denied.
2016-12-17 18:39:07,411-0500 FATAL initexmf - Info: existing="C:\Program
Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe", new="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfclose.exe.(old)"

As far as I can see pdfclose.exe is a wrapper and is (re)created
when initexmf --mklinks is called. But for some reason the access to
pdfclose is not allowed. Can you move/rename/delete pdfclose.exe?
And if you try after the rename can you run on a command line (you
probably need admin rights)

initexmf --admin --mklinks

?