Timeline for MiKTeX broken after uninstalling and reinstalling it, "pdflatex did not succeed"
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| Oct 5, 2018 at 10:19 | answer | added | u_niuniu | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 8:45 | comment | added | u_niuniu | @UlrikeFischer thank you for trying! I opened up a ticket on the Developer's GitHub and hopefully he can help me out... | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 8:27 | comment | added | Ulrike Fischer | Sorry I can't help you. It is some access problem on your pc. You could try to reinstall in your user account in single user mode in some folder C:\miktex. Or try texlive instead. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 8:23 | comment | added | u_niuniu | Tried it with miktex-pdftex.exe and pdftex.exe, but I still get the exact same result :/ | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 8:19 | comment | added | Ulrike Fischer | The exe is not pdflatex.exe but miktex-pdftex.exe or pdftex.exe. And someting is denying the access to pdflatex.ini, so it is quite understable that the format creation fails. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 8:06 | comment | added | u_niuniu | The Security Software on this laptop is only Windows Defender. I tried adding pdflatex.exe explicitly as an allowed .exe, but the result is the same. Checking for updates yields no new updates as both user and admin. @UlrikeFischer | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 7:58 | comment | added | Ulrike Fischer | Well as I wrote above: check your security software. You could also try to restart your computer, check for miktex updates (user and admin) and try again. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 7:54 | comment | added | u_niuniu | I created a test folder on Desktop: C:\Users\user\Desktop\textest No, I don't have any strong firewall or antivirus :/ It used to work before yesterday too, I was writing presentation slides for university and probably used a wrong command, which made texworks and miktex stop compiling correctly, so i tried to delete it and reinstall it | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 7:53 | comment | added | Ulrike Fischer | Sorry but in which temporary folder did you try to run the command? But it looks as if pdftex is no allowed to run at all. Do you have some aggressive firewall or virus protection software? | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 7:49 | comment | added | u_niuniu | @Ulrike Fischer It did not write pdflatex.log into the same folder, but yes there was a new log in the log-folder (which is too long for a comment reply yet again). The terminal output was simply this: Sorry, but pdftex did not succeed. The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex\log\pdftex.log | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 7:49 | history | edited | u_niuniu | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 1075 characters in body |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 7:35 | comment | added | Ulrike Fischer | Damn, looks like miktex no longer saves the pdftex log somewhere. Open a command line in some empty test folder and then run pdftex --ini --enable-etex pdflatex.ini this should hopefully write a pdflatex.log in this folder. Or you can at least see in the terminal where it stops. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 7:14 | history | edited | u_niuniu | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 7774 characters in body |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 7:08 | comment | added | u_niuniu | Thank you for your answer; the build failed and created a new log, which is too long to add here, I will have to add it to the main post as another edit it seems? | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 6:58 | comment | added | Ulrike Fischer | Well I hope you learned that "simply reinstall everything" is not the best strategy to solve problems. miktex can't create the format file, so you need to find out why. Go to the miktex console, settings -> tab format. Select pdflatex and click on build. If it fails you perhaps get the real log-file. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 6:47 | history | edited | u_niuniu | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 600 characters in body |
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