Re: [MiKTeX] Broken MiKTeX installation

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

Am Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:45:58 +0200 schrieb Carlos Pastor Alcoceba:

> Hello,
> 
> I had a fully functional MiKTeX 2.9 installation working on my laptop
> running Windows 7 when I accidentally deleted the
> C:/Users/.../AppData/Local/MiKTeX folder.

Couldn't you retrieve it from the bin?

> This made the MiKTeX uninstaller
> unable to succesfully remove files, registry entries, etc. I tried to
> reinstall MiKTeX on top of the broken installation to try to repair it but
> it didn't work as expected. After uninstalling and reinstalling a couple of
> times I got stuck with the following problems:

Well after "uninstalling and reinstalling a couple of times" the
state of your system is so unclear that without direct access to
your pc nobody can help you (and even then it is quite probable that
it can't be sorted out). Next time you run into a problem: freeze.
Don't touch anything until you have clear idea what you should do.
 
> - Installer and uninstaller seem to run fine without problems.
> - When I try to compile a file using pdflatex run from Texmaker the
> following fatal error occours:  "!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file lmsy9): Font
> lmsy9 at 600 not found"

Probably you only need to run updmap. 

> Any help would be much appreciated. In particular I would like to try to
> manually remove any traces from the old MiKTeX installation and try a clean
> install, if that is possible.

Then you will have to remove the miktex entries from the registry
and remove all roots. Check also the environment variables.
 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/