[tex-live] exam + babel => latex hangs

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 27/09/13 at 15:58 +0000, Lars Madsen wrote:
> I have no problem with this example, using the following versions
> 
>    exam.cls    2011/05/22 Version 2.4 by Philip Hirschhorn
>   ifthen.sty    2001/05/26 v1.1c Standard LaTeX ifthen package (DPC)
>  article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
>   size10.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
>  fontenc.sty
>    t1enc.def    2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file
>    babel.sty    2013/05/16 v3.9f The Babel package
>  frenchb.ldf    2013/07/06 v2.6e French support from the babel system
> scalefnt.sty    
>   keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
> 
> 
> \listfiles
> \documentclass{exam}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[french]{babel}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{questions}
> \question[2] Test
> \end{questions}
> \end{document}

Erm, actually, I tried to reproduce my problem in a clean Debian 'sid' chroot,
and failed. So it might be caused by something else.

Any idea how to debug further? Is there a step-by-step execution mode in
pdflatex, for example?

Lucas