#2421 lualatex doesn't work

[U_Fischer]

After the update today lualatex doesn't work.

lualatex --help

gives:

C:\Users\XXXX\Documents\tests>lualatex --help

Sorry, but lualatex did not succeed.

The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:

  C:/Users/XXXX/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/lualatex.log

You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page, if you need help.

The log-file says:

2015-12-20 13:29:29,011+0100 FATAL lualatex - bad allocation

This is on a windows 10 (version 1511), with a single user 32-bib-miktex installation.

luatex --help works fine. I tried to recreate the format (no errors) and to rebuild the links (initexmf --mklinks) but it didn't help.

[Christian Schenk]

This seems to be a system-dependent bug. I was not yet able to reproduce this. Files lualatex.exe and luatex.exe should compare equal. Can you check this please?

[U_Fischer]

Sorry, I had forgotten to add --force to the initexmf --mklinks command and so lualatex was still "old". After initexmf --mklinks --force it worked. But why didn't the installer do it on my system? Is it a single-user-installation problem? lualatex is not excluded in the format list.