Re: MikTeX installation failed

Thank you very much for your help. The problem seems to be solved. 
This is what I did, following your advice:

Updated all update-able files, using the MikTeX package manager
Chose a concrete repository for downloads in the US (instead of the default "random repository"), using the MikTeX
Updated the MikTeX settings, using the MikTeX settings tool

I don't know which one of these helped---maybe all three!

Best,
                     Juan

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From: Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2015 6:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] MikTeX installation failed

Am Sat, 7 Nov 2015 06:00:45 +0000 schrieb juan tolosa:

> 2015-11-06 00:40:08,752-0500 FATAL initexmf - Windows API error
> 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used
> by another process.

This sounds as if something is/was blocking some miktex files. Close
everything miktex related (texworks, yap ...), then open miktex
settings and recreate the formats and the fndb.

> 2015-11-06 00:43:23,714-0500 INFO  miktex-pdftex - mpm: extracting files from plgraph.tar.lzma...
> 2015-11-06 00:43:23,730-0500 FATAL miktex-pdftex - Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

Perhaps the package was defect. Open the package manager, change to
some other repository and try to install plgraph from there.


>  I downloaded MikTeX only yesterday, so I was hoping it would be up-to-date.

Depends how you did install it. The basic version has been packaged
some time ago, so it is normally not up-to-date.


--
Ulrike Fischer
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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