[MiKTeX] Bug after update?

Discussion:

Grey

2017-01-03 14:51:59 UTC

after a complete new install to standard path (C:\Program Files\...) and
after running Admin-Update (which is successful) i get a internal error
from miktex when running the update-utility again.

update-log says the following (beside some other lines):

initexmf: warning: The link target "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\x64\miktex-xdvipdfmx.exe" does not exist.

miktex-makefmt.log has in its last lines:

2017-01-03 15:38:17,404+0100 INFO makex - Creating the etex format file...
2017-01-03 15:38:17,416+0100 INFO makex - Running miktex-pdftex.exe...
2017-01-03 15:38:17,441+0100 FATAL miktex-makefmt - miktex-pdftex.exe
failed on etex.ini.

dunno if it helps, would like to use MiKTeX very much, but have no idea
how to resolve this.

Best

Denis José Navas Vega

2017-01-04 03:36:31 UTC

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I have two sugestions,

I remember that in a similar situation, I repeated the failed
instruction within the command line interface and that solved the
issue; another one that sometimes fails is luaotfload-tool.exe and
calling it with '--update' resolves problems of fonts not located.

But I had another situation, that wasn't solved satisfactorily that
obligued me to install in a local texmf directory (created under my
user directory), the files of the luaotfload package that are on
development.

Post by Grey
after a complete new install to standard path (C:\Program Files\...) and
after running Admin-Update (which is successful) i get a internal error
from miktex when running the update-utility again.
initexmf: warning: The link target "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\x64\miktex-xdvipdfmx.exe" does not exist.
2017-01-03 15:38:17,404+0100 INFO makex - Creating the etex format file...
2017-01-03 15:38:17,416+0100 INFO makex - Running miktex-pdftex.exe...
2017-01-03 15:38:17,441+0100 FATAL miktex-makefmt - miktex-pdftex.exe
failed on etex.ini.
dunno if it helps, would like to use MiKTeX very much, but have no idea
how to resolve this.
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Grey

2017-01-04 08:24:01 UTC

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thank you for your answer, I will try to run the update-procedure from
the command line.

I have tried running latex in the shell, it gives me "the program cannot
be started, since MiKTeX209-jpeg.dll is missing on the computer". I had
this same error message before when trying to compile from texmaker (but
only after the aforementioned update-run).

Post by Denis JosÃ© Navas Vega
I have two sugestions,
I remember that in a similar situation, I repeated the failed
instruction within the command line interface and that solved the
issue; another one that sometimes fails is luaotfload-tool.exe and
calling it with '--update' resolves problems of fonts not located.
But I had another situation, that wasn't solved satisfactorily that
obligued me to install in a local texmf directory (created under my
user directory), the files of the luaotfload package that are on
development.

Grey

2017-01-04 08:40:54 UTC

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There is, unfortunately, more:

2017-01-04 09:27:50,758+0100 INFO mpmcli - package repository:
ftp://ftp.fau.de/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/
2017-01-04 09:27:50,876+0100 INFO mpmcli - lightweight database digest:
1610df23624084df9d9217103927acc1
2017-01-04 09:27:50,877+0100 INFO mpmcli - going to download 79600363 bytes
2017-01-04 09:27:50,877+0100 INFO mpmcli - going to install 1382
file(s) (66 package(s))
2017-01-04 09:27:50,879+0100 INFO mpmcli - downloading
ftp://ftp.fau.de/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/beamer.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:27:51,636+0100 INFO mpmcli - 2625799 bytes, 3391.87 KB/Sec
2017-01-04 09:27:52,207+0100 INFO mpmcli - extracting files from
beamer.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:27:53,940+0100 INFO mpmcli - downloading
ftp://ftp.fau.de/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/biblatex.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:27:55,679+0100 INFO mpmcli - 7177956 bytes, 4030.89 KB/Sec
2017-01-04 09:27:55,874+0100 INFO mpmcli - extracting files from
biblatex.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:27:57,632+0100 INFO mpmcli - downloading
ftp://ftp.fau.de/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/biblatex-apa.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:27:57,979+0100 INFO mpmcli - 241394 bytes, 681.32 KB/Sec
2017-01-04 09:27:58,018+0100 INFO mpmcli - extracting files from
biblatex-apa.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:27:58,148+0100 INFO mpmcli - downloading
ftp://ftp.fau.de/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/bidi.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:27:59,219+0100 INFO mpmcli - 4009620 bytes, 3656.06 KB/Sec
2017-01-04 09:27:59,306+0100 FATAL mpmcli - MiKTeX encountered an
internal error.
2017-01-04 09:27:59,307+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Info:
2017-01-04 09:27:59,307+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Source:
Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Cfg\Cfg.cpp
2017-01-04 09:27:59,307+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Line: 712
2017-01-04 09:29:08,373+0100 INFO mpmcli - starting: mpmcli (MiKTeX
2.9.6100 64-bit)
2017-01-04 09:29:08,650+0100 INFO mpmcli - downloading
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb2-2.9.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:29:10,020+0100 INFO mpmcli - 887740 bytes, 635.58 KB/Sec
2017-01-04 09:29:21,613+0100 INFO mpmcli - updating package definition
directory (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9\tpm\packages)...
2017-01-04 09:29:25,926+0100 INFO mpmcli - installed 3054 package
definition files
2017-01-04 09:29:36,790+0100 INFO mpmcli - visiting repository
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/...
2017-01-04 09:29:36,790+0100 INFO mpmcli - repository type: remote
package repository
2017-01-04 09:29:36,790+0100 INFO mpmcli - loading lightweight database...
2017-01-04 09:29:36,792+0100 INFO mpmcli - downloading
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1-2.9.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:29:37,230+0100 INFO mpmcli - 162468 bytes, 362.24 KB/Sec
2017-01-04 09:30:06,416+0100 INFO mpmcli - starting: mpmcli (MiKTeX
2.9.6100 64-bit)
2017-01-04 09:30:06,692+0100 INFO mpmcli - downloading
ftp://ftp.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb2-2.9.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:30:07,560+0100 INFO mpmcli - 887740 bytes, 1006.89 KB/Sec
2017-01-04 09:30:19,495+0100 INFO mpmcli - updating package definition
directory (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9\tpm\packages)...
2017-01-04 09:30:24,095+0100 INFO mpmcli - installed 3054 package
definition files
2017-01-04 09:30:35,006+0100 INFO mpmcli - visiting repository
ftp://ftp.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/...
2017-01-04 09:30:35,007+0100 INFO mpmcli - repository type: remote
package repository
2017-01-04 09:30:35,007+0100 INFO mpmcli - loading lightweight database...
2017-01-04 09:30:35,009+0100 INFO mpmcli - downloading
ftp://ftp.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1-2.9.tar.lzma...
2017-01-04 09:30:35,297+0100 INFO mpmcli - 162468 bytes, 549.00 KB/Sec
2017-01-04 09:30:39,326+0100 INFO mpmcli - lightweight database digest:
1610df23624084df9d9217103927acc1
2017-01-04 09:30:40,286+0100 FATAL mpmcli - MiKTeX encountered an
internal error.
2017-01-04 09:30:40,286+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Info:
2017-01-04 09:30:40,286+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Source:
Libraries\MiKTeX\PackageManager\PackageManager.cpp
2017-01-04 09:30:40,286+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Line: 658

mpm --find-updates and mpm --update-db work fine, but when calling mpm
--update, the above is produced
(two calls taken from the log file, so one causes something in Cfg.cpp
and the other in PackageManager.cpp).

I seriously do not know how to handle this, although I normally know my
way around software and computers quite well.

Denis José Navas Vega

2017-01-05 01:47:35 UTC

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Post by Grey
2017-01-04 09:27:59,306+0100 FATAL mpmcli - MiKTeX encountered an
internal error.

Seems like MiKTeX is lacking something.
In the las two months I have avoided update MiKTeX. What I do with the
"Package Manager"
is to uninstall and reinstall some packages.

In my experience the whole process becomes dificult when the core
MiKTeX binaries
are involved. In a case like this, I update the package database with
"MiKTeX Settings"
and download with the Package Manager, the needed packages.

Your update process stoped when you were downloading the bidi package.
The error refers to an internal code on mpmcli:

2017-01-04 09:27:59,307+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Info:
2017-01-04 09:27:59,307+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Source:
Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Cfg\Cfg.cpp
2017-01-04 09:27:59,307+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Line: 712

And that's the package manager, command line interface. Perhaps,
something can improve
using "MiKTeX Settings" and later the package manager cli.

If that does not work, in the past members of the LaTeX have given
pointers to usable software
still in development. It worth to ask them.

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Grey

2017-01-05 08:12:01 UTC

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Hi,

thanks a lot for your reply.
I have found a solution for the problem, which was to temporarily set a
proxy (do not ask me why):
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/345485/miktex-update-error

the mentioned approach (answer of user stu003) worked for me.

Best

Post by Grey
2017-01-04 09:27:59,306+0100 FATAL mpmcli - MiKTeX encountered an
internal error.

Seems like MiKTeX is lacking something.
In the las two months I have avoided update MiKTeX. What I do with the
"Package Manager"
is to uninstall and reinstall some packages.
In my experience the whole process becomes dificult when the core
MiKTeX binaries
are involved. In a case like this, I update the package database with
"MiKTeX Settings"
and download with the Package Manager, the needed packages.
Your update process stoped when you were downloading the bidi package.
Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Cfg\Cfg.cpp
2017-01-04 09:27:59,307+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Line: 712
And that's the package manager, command line interface. Perhaps,
something can improve
using "MiKTeX Settings" and later the package manager cli.
If that does not work, in the past members of the LaTeX have given
pointers to usable software
still in development. It worth to ask them.

Denis José Navas Vega

2017-01-05 20:34:28 UTC

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Thanks for the pointer.

Post by Grey
Hi,
thanks a lot for your reply.
I have found a solution for the problem, which was to temporarily set a
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/345485/miktex-update-error
the mentioned approach (answer of user stu003) worked for me.
Best

Post by Grey
2017-01-04 09:27:59,306+0100 FATAL mpmcli - MiKTeX encountered an
internal error.

Seems like MiKTeX is lacking something.
In the las two months I have avoided update MiKTeX. What I do with the
"Package Manager"
is to uninstall and reinstall some packages.
In my experience the whole process becomes dificult when the core
MiKTeX binaries
are involved. In a case like this, I update the package database with
"MiKTeX Settings"
and download with the Package Manager, the needed packages.
Your update process stoped when you were downloading the bidi package.
Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Cfg\Cfg.cpp
2017-01-04 09:27:59,307+0100 FATAL mpmcli - Line: 712
And that's the package manager, command line interface. Perhaps,
something can improve
using "MiKTeX Settings" and later the package manager cli.
If that does not work, in the past members of the LaTeX have given
pointers to usable software
still in development. It worth to ask them.

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