Re: Fork issue on W10 WOW

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 6/30/2018 11:52 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi,
> on a new W10 HP Laptop, the 32 bit installation always fails
> on postinstallation scripts that use perl.
>
> The outcome is like:
>
> $ ./texlive-collection-formatsextra.sh
>        1 [main] perl 1796 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed 
> by 'Encode.dll' (0x2620000) is already occupied
> Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/fmtutil line 73.
[...]
> Until I have the 32bit running I can not deploy any new package, as the 
> previous W7 is retired.

I've never had this problem with my own 32bit installation on W10, but I 
just reproduced it by doing a new installation with your list of 
packages.  Have you tried just installing a minimal list of packages 
that you need for building the packages you maintain?

Alternatively, you might work around the problem by first doing a base 
install, then installing your texlive-collection-* packages, and then 
installing everything else.  I just tested this with your list of 
packages, and it worked for me.

Ken

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