Re: rebuild formats | miktex config utility failed?

Well, I decided in the end to simply re-install MikTeX. Problem solved. 
Obviously, something got corrupted at some point.

On 4/3/2014 11:53 AM, Evan Cooch wrote:
> Running 2.9 under Windows 7. 64-bit, installed for user only (me, who is
> also sysadmin for this computer). Applied some recent updates, and ran
> through my usual sequence of 'Refresh FNDB' and 'Update Formats'. First
> step ran fine, but now, when I try to update formats, I get an error
> message: windows pops up saying
>
> 'The MikTeX configuration utility failed. Do you want to see the
> transcript?'
>
> if I click 'yes', then I'm presented with the following:
>
> initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason.
> initexmf.EXE: Data:
> C:\Users\egc\Desktop\egc\text\MikTeX\miktex\bin\x64\miktex-makefmt.exe
>
> Any suggestions? Known issues? I'm asking because the involved machine
> is one out of 5 different machines I run MikTeX from, and before I
> 'update' them, want to get some sense of whether or not this is an
> 'issue', or a 'one-off' on this particular machine.
>
> Thanks in advance...
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