no ctx file found

no ctx file found

[Hans van der Meer]

After starting afresh after an os update and much trouble in getting  
all those texmf.cnf parameters in order followed by context  
specialities, I finally managed to get the cont-en.fmt in /usr/local/ 
texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt.

But now (running in TeXShop) typesetting will not occur:

TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file test.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 1100
TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.5 (Web2C 7.5.6)
  \write18 enabled.
  %&-line parsing enabled.
  (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
TeXExec | runtime: 0.601367

In texmf.cnf I have TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}// (worked  
in the past)
What's wrong here?

Hans van der Meer



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Re: no ctx file found

[Hans Hagen]

Hans van der Meer wrote:
> After starting afresh after an os update and much trouble in getting  
> all those texmf.cnf parameters in order followed by context  
> specialities, I finally managed to get the cont-en.fmt in /usr/local/ 
> texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt.
> 
> But now (running in TeXShop) typesetting will not occur:
> 
> TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex'
> TeXExec | no ctx file found
> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
> TeXExec | TeX run 1
> TeXExec | writing option file test.top
> TeXExec | using randomseed 1100
> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.5 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>   \write18 enabled.
>   %&-line parsing enabled.
>   (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> TeXExec | runtime: 0.601367
> 
> In texmf.cnf I have TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}// (worked  
> in the past)
> What's wrong here?

remove *all* cont-en.fmt files on your system, maybe there is a lookup 
match lower in the tree; keep in mind that when generating formats, the 
generator has to move the file someplace, while when using the format 
the variable kicks in, so there can be a mismatch

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Re: no ctx file found

[Hans van der Meer]

Thanks, Hans.
Apparently that is the trick. After using find to locate all  
cont*.fmt's and removing them, luatools generated one in its cache  
directory that proved to be sufficient. Must indeed be a path variable  
problem (TeX now has so many of them, I never seem to get them sorted  
out; not to mention the interplay between those in .cnf files and  
those in my .bashrc that drives me mad).

Hans van der Meer



On 17 dec 2007, at 22:24, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>> After starting afresh after an os update and much trouble in getting
>> all those texmf.cnf parameters in order followed by context
>> specialities, I finally managed to get the cont-en.fmt in /usr/local/
>> texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt.
>>
>> But now (running in TeXShop) typesetting will not occur:
>>
>> TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex'
>> TeXExec | no ctx file found
>> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
>> TeXExec | TeX run 1
>> TeXExec | writing option file test.top
>> TeXExec | using randomseed 1100
>> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
>> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
>> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.5 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>>  \write18 enabled.
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>>  (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
>> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>> TeXExec | runtime: 0.601367
>>
>> In texmf.cnf I have TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}// (worked
>> in the past)
>> What's wrong here?
>
> remove *all* cont-en.fmt files on your system, maybe there is a lookup
> match lower in the tree; keep in mind that when generating formats,  
> the
> generator has to move the file someplace, while when using the format
> the variable kicks in, so there can be a mismatch
>
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