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I've recently started writing a long academic paper and some other problems forced me to update MikTex to a current version. I ran the Updater (Admin) several times. Now I have two issues. The TeXworks gui has horribly oversized fonts in its user interface, the fonts are over the top big. But I could carve my eyes out and live with that. The main problem is that when a package is missing (e.g. the url package in this case), the install package dialog pops up during compilation and upon clicking ok, crashes pdflatex. If I try adding the package via Package Manager (Admin), I get the following crash:

Unhandled exception at 0x77d4dd10 in mpm_mfc_admin.exe: 0xC06D007E: Module not found.

Any idea which module might be missing? This is just another problem on top of many problems. I gradually destroyed my document and now also the MikTex installation ... great. I should get a job in the industry.

EDIT

When running from Texworks, I can also see the following texify log:

2016-01-06 22:35:38,101+0100 INFO  texify - running 'initexmf --quiet --update-fndb' to refresh the file name database
2016-01-06 22:38:36,070+0100 FATAL texify - TeX engine failed for some reason (see log file).
2016-01-06 22:38:36,070+0100 FATAL texify - Info: 
2016-01-06 22:38:36,070+0100 FATAL texify - Source: Programs\MiKTeX\texify\mcd.cpp
2016-01-06 22:38:36,070+0100 FATAL texify - Line: 1452
2016-01-06 22:39:15,023+0100 FATAL texify - TeX engine failed for some reason (see log file).
2016-01-06 22:39:15,023+0100 FATAL texify - Info: 
2016-01-06 22:39:15,023+0100 FATAL texify - Source: Programs\MiKTeX\texify\mcd.cpp
2016-01-06 22:39:15,023+0100 FATAL texify - Line: 1452
2016-01-06 22:39:59,289+0100 FATAL texify - TeX engine failed for some reason (see log file).
2016-01-06 22:39:59,289+0100 FATAL texify - Info: 
2016-01-06 22:39:59,289+0100 FATAL texify - Source: Programs\MiKTeX\texify\mcd.cpp
2016-01-06 22:39:59,289+0100 FATAL texify - Line: 1452
2016-01-07 09:48:48,398+0100 INFO  texify - running 'initexmf --quiet --update-fndb' to refresh the file name database
2016-01-07 10:11:36,304+0100 INFO  texify - running 'initexmf --quiet --update-fndb' to refresh the file name database
2016-01-07 10:12:31,617+0100 FATAL texify - MiKTeX encountered an internal error.
2016-01-07 10:12:31,617+0100 FATAL texify - Info: 
2016-01-07 10:12:31,617+0100 FATAL texify - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\MemoryMappedFile\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
2016-01-07 10:12:31,617+0100 FATAL texify - Line: 155

And the error is the same:

Unhandled exception at 0x77d4dd10 in pdflatex.exe: 0xC06D007E: Module not found.

the swine
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  • Check carefully that you have all new packages and updates by synchronizing and using the package managers. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/108447/how-should-one-maintain-and-update-a-miktex-installation/108490#108490 – Ulrike Fischer Jan 07 '16 at 09:03
  • Yes. I have ran the updater several times, now the list is empty. Bad timing, I dont like it. How can I go to the working pre-dezember 2015 miktex? – the swine Jan 07 '16 at 09:06
  • I didn't wrote "update manager" but "package manager". Did you actually read the answer I linked to? – Ulrike Fischer Jan 07 '16 at 09:13
  • Oh, right, my bad. Except that I can't install any new packages (did you read my question?). Also I somehow doubt that Swedish hyphenation package is helping my problem in any way. – the swine Jan 07 '16 at 09:21
  • Your question says something about "if I try updating the package via Updater (Admin),", nowhere is mentions the package manager. – Ulrike Fischer Jan 07 '16 at 09:23
  • Well, I was mentioning the problem of adding a missing package which should have been manager rather than updater. Anyhow, I need to write this thing. Is there a way to get the old version miktex? Yes or no? – the swine Jan 07 '16 at 09:25
  • I also tried reinstalling from scratch, which sadly did not help my issue. – the swine Jan 07 '16 at 09:28
  • No you can't go back (unless you made a backup before you clicked the update button). You probably updated some binaries and didn't got the necessary dll first. I would try to repair it by trying to install from the command line or manually after getting the packages from CTAN. Try texlive if you don't get miktex to work. – Ulrike Fischer Jan 07 '16 at 09:32
  • Yeah, I'm ditching MikTex for good. Will probably go with overleaf or something else that works. Thanks for your help. – the swine Jan 07 '16 at 09:34

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