Re: Broken MiKTeX installation

I removed all root directories and all registry entries and reinstalled and
it worked like a charm. Thanks Ulrike.

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Carlos Pastor

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:45:58 +0200 schrieb Carlos Pastor Alcoceba:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I had a fully functional MiKTeX 2.9 installation working on my laptop
> > running Windows 7 when I accidentally deleted the
> > C:/Users/.../AppData/Local/MiKTeX folder.
>
> Couldn't you retrieve it from the bin?
>
> > This made the MiKTeX uninstaller
> > unable to succesfully remove files, registry entries, etc. I tried to
> > reinstall MiKTeX on top of the broken installation to try to repair it
> but
> > it didn't work as expected. After uninstalling and reinstalling a couple
> of
> > times I got stuck with the following problems:
>
> Well after "uninstalling and reinstalling a couple of times" the
> state of your system is so unclear that without direct access to
> your pc nobody can help you (and even then it is quite probable that
> it can't be sorted out). Next time you run into a problem: freeze.
> Don't touch anything until you have clear idea what you should do.
>
> > - Installer and uninstaller seem to run fine without problems.
> > - When I try to compile a file using pdflatex run from Texmaker the
> > following fatal error occours:  "!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file lmsy9):
> Font
> > lmsy9 at 600 not found"
>
> Probably you only need to run updmap.
>
> > Any help would be much appreciated. In particular I would like to try to
> > manually remove any traces from the old MiKTeX installation and try a
> clean
> > install, if that is possible.
>
> Then you will have to remove the miktex entries from the registry
> and remove all roots. Check also the environment variables.
>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>
>
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