Re: YAP stop working after MikTex update

On 18 December 2016 at 18:11, Mario Goncalves <[email protected]> wrote:

> I spend some weeks searching for potential answers for a similar problem
> without success. Meanwhile I posted this message in the TeX users group and
> was advised to send as a bug report. This happened after one of many MikTex
> updates I made but it is unclear to me the source of the problem. My
> yap.exe file has the date of 29 Oct'16, so this might give you some useful
> clue. I usually compile my documents to pdf and so I only use dvi and yap
> to do tests and quick debugging. In one such ocasion while opening the dvi
> with yap an error window open with the message "MiKTeX encountered an
> internal error." The report info is the following:
>
> MiKTeX Problem Report
> Message: MiKTeX encountered an internal error.
> Data:
> Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Session\mfmodes.cpp
> Line: 50
> MiKTeX: 2.9
> OS: Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, Service Pack 1, build 7601
> Invokers: non-existing/explorer/TeXnicCenter
> SystemAdmin: yes
> PowerUser: no
> Root0: C:\Users\Myaccount\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root1: C:\Users\Myaccount\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
> UserInstall: C:\Users\Myaccount\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
> UserConfig: C:\Users\Myaccount\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
> UserData: C:\Users\Myaccount\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
> CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
> CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
> CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
>
> The problem is the same regardless if I compile a document within
> TeXnicCenter or just try to open a dvi file directly from a directory or
> even if I just double-click on yap.exe. I guess there is no problem in
> compiling to a dvi document, just opening it.
>
> Many thanks for your support
>
> Mário
>

In a previous post, I posted instructions on finding the cause of "internal
error" from yap.
In that example, the case was a missing modes.mf file.  Check the list
archives for Nov.
9th, subject "yap error"


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