Re: Too many open files (was fc-cache fails after recent MikTeX update)

Jan,

I have not hijacked anything. I received e-mail from Ulrike Fischer 
today at 12:08 East European Daylight Saving Time (= GMT + 3h). Ulrike's 
e-mail was addressed to the whole list 
[email protected], including myself. Your e-mail was 
automatically cited In that Ulrike's e-mail. I wrote my e-mail as a 
reply to Ulrike's e-mail, and my mailing program (Mozilla Thunderbird) 
automatically cited the previous e-mails (both Ulrike's and yours).

Juris Freimanis


On 2016.05.31. 13:53, Jan Přikryl wrote:
> Juris,
>
> first, be aware that you hijacked my post ;-).
>
> Second, monitor the bug report 2499, it probably describes your problem
> as well.
>
> Third, like it or not, MiKTeX is free of charge, and developed by a
> single developer,  so you have to live with occasional periods of issues
> until things settle down. Even it these periods are more frequent in the
> last half a year (at least for me). I am not happy with that as well,
> but I have no solution short of a) paying a full-time developer to help
> Christian (but a decent developer in CZ would cost you some 50-60
> thousand EUR per year, which is approximately fivefold of my salary as a
> university Assistant Professor) in stabilising the current code base or
> b) do it myself (for which I do not have time)...
>
> -- jan
>
> Dne Út, 31. květen 2016 v 11:47 h uživatel Juris Freimanis napsal:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I seem the latest big MiKTeX update (launched in the middle of May 2016)
>> is a complete failure. E-mails with messages about serious errors come
>> from many MiKTeX users. For myself: 1) the compilation does not work on
>> my computer (neither .tex -> .dvi nor .tex -> .pdf), 2) MiKTeX
>> administrative update (copystart_admin.exe) ends with the error message:
>>
>> =============================
>>
>> Sorry, but something went wrong:
>>
>> Too many open files: path = "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
>> 2.9\tpm\packages\miktex-metapost-bin-2.9.tpm"
>>
>> path = "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
>> 2.9\tpm\packages\miktex-metapost-bin-2.9.tpm"
>>
>> =============================
>>
>> I have Windows 7 Professional SP1 as my operating system, with the
>> latest Windows updates installed. It is clear that it will be necessary
>> to deinstall and completely reinstall MiKTeX if I still wish to use
>> MiKTeX in future. However, while there are so many error messages from
>> other colleagues I am not sure if it is worth to spend my time for
>> reinstalling MiKTeX.
>>
>> I am not a MiKTeX developer; I am completely uninterested to study the
>> complicated directory structure of MiKTeX software, the role of each
>> .dll library etc. My only wish is to have some usable tool in order to
>> produce scientific papers in my branch. I ask Christian Schenk and all
>> the other relevant people to restore on all servers the MiKTeX version
>> which was operative until the beginning of May 2016. Please launch only
>> such MiKTeX updates which have been thoroughly tested.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Juris Freimanis
>>
>> On 2016.05.31. 12:08, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>>> Am Tue, 31 May 2016 09:20:02 +0200 schrieb Jan Přikryl:
>>>
>>>> since the last "major" MiKTeX update approximately two weeks ago, MiKTeX
>>>> fails to completely install a new package (be it on-the-fly or through
>>>> MiKTeX package manager). On manual install it always complains about
>>>> UserInstall: C:\Users\Jan Přikryl\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
>>> I saw a similar error message on tex.sx and had a discussion about
>>> it in the chat, but nothing definitive was found.
>>>
>>> He also made a bug report but the error couldn't be reproduced:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/2468/
>>>
>>> Like you this user had a non-ascii chars in the user name, so it is
>>> possible that this leads to the failure of fc-cache to write the
>>> cache.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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