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For an unknown to me reason, LaTeX started giving me this error: Ouch---my internal constants have been clobbered!---case 14. It throws the error even before it starts reading the file, so even if I run LaTeX or pdfLaTeX without any arguments I still get the error message and nothing else.

I took a look at this thread, but I'm not familiar with TeX inner workings at all, so I didn't find it helpful.

I tried completely uninstalling LaTeX and reinstalling it, but that didn't fix the error.

I'm running TeXLive on Linux Mint 14, kernel Linux 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64).

Here's output from dpkg --get-selections | grep tex

biblatex                    install
dblatex                     install
gettext                     install
gettext-base                    install
jadetex                     install
latex-beamer                    install
latex-xcolor                    install
libdjvulibre-text               install
libexttextcat-1.0-0             install
libexttextcat-data              install
libgettextpo0:amd64             install
libgettextpo0:i386              install
liblatex-encode-perl                install
liblocale-gettext-perl              install
libptexenc1                 install
libtext-bibtex-perl             install
libtext-charwidth-perl              install
libtext-glob-perl               install
libtext-iconv-perl              install
libtext-wrapi18n-perl               install
luatex                      install
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text          install
preview-latex-style             install
tex-common                  install
tex-gyre                    install
texlive                     install
texlive-base                    install
texlive-bibtex-extra                install
texlive-binaries                install
texlive-common                  install
texlive-doc-base                install
texlive-extra-utils             install
texlive-font-utils              install
texlive-fonts-extra             install
texlive-fonts-extra-doc             install
texlive-fonts-recommended           install
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc           install
texlive-generic-extra               install
texlive-generic-recommended         install
texlive-lang-cyrillic               install
texlive-latex-base              install
texlive-latex-base-doc              install
texlive-latex-extra             install
texlive-latex-extra-doc             install
texlive-latex-recommended           install
texlive-latex-recommended-doc           install
texlive-luatex                  install
texlive-math-extra              install
texlive-pictures                install
texlive-pictures-doc                install
texlive-pstricks                install
texlive-pstricks-doc                install
texlive-publishers              install
texlive-publishers-doc              install
texlive-science                 install
texlive-science-doc             install
texlive-xetex                   install

The only idea I have is that a package I installed recently called Rivet, which I need for my research, might have messed with my latex installation.

Please, let me know if anybody has any idea as to how this issue could be fixed as I cannot use LaTeX on my computer anymore.

Thanks

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    try kpsewhich texmf.cnf or just search for files of that name using your operating system, it looks like you have one with settings incompatible with the TeX you are using. – David Carlisle Aug 31 '13 at 21:24
  • @DavidCarlisle kpsewhich texmf.cnf found /home/ivanp/Physics/Rivet/local/share/Rivet/texmf/cnf/texmf.cnf

    Here's what's inside: main_memory = 230000000 % words of inimemory available; also applies to inimf&mp extra_mem_top = 10000000 % extra high memory for chars, tokens, etc. extra_mem_bot = 10000000 % extra low memory for boxes, glue, breakpoints, etc. save_size = 150000 % for saving values outside current group stack_size = 150000 % simultaneous input sources

    I don't know what to do with it though.

     – SU3 Sep 01 '13 at 22:52
  • @DavidCarlisle Ok, I deleted /home/ivanp/Physics/Rivet/local/share/Rivet/texmf/ and latex runs now. Could you explain to me how this file was causing the error? Thanks. – SU3 Sep 01 '13 at 23:01
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    in 25 years using Tex I've never seen that error:-) The answer that you linked to suggested that the problem was setting main_memory incorrectly in texmf.cnf. main_memory = 230000000 does look suspiciously large (the default texlive 2013 is main_memory = 5000000) – David Carlisle Sep 01 '13 at 23:21
  • @DavidCarlisle: if (mem_min<min_halfword) or (mem_max>=max_halfword) or (mem_bot-mem_min>max_halfword+1) then bad:=14; - this is no problem with LuaTeX, btw. – Martin Schröder Sep 02 '13 at 22:05

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