Re: Taking a very long time to run /etc/postinstall/texlive-dollection-context.sh

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 1/18/2016 4:06 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Taking a very long time to run /etc/postinstall/texlive-dollection-context.sh
>
> How long should it take?  I've had to terminate it prior to completion
> a couple of times because I had to logout of the machine (Windows 2008
> Standard server).  The longest I had it run  was about 18 hours.

It should take less than a minute.  Here's what the script does:

/usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --enablefmt cont-en/pdftex
/usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --enablefmt cont-en/xetex
/usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --byfmt cont-en

Can you run those commands manually and see what the problem is?

Ken

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