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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Damien Thiriet <damien@thiriet.web4me.fr>
Subject: Re: fatal error: there is no valid writable cache path defined
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 10:00:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c48b3d3-1a82-d9e0-32f4-1bad10c0758b@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191115202016.GA6365@maroilles.home>

On 11/15/2019 9:20 PM, Damien Thiriet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I ran into trouble with caches. First I updated the new binaries
> and they compiled fine under OpenBSD6.6-amd64.
> Then I uploaded some binaries Hans asked me to test, moved this
> luametatex to /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-openbsd6.6-amd64/bin/,
> deleted files inside /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-cache (but not
> texmf-cache itself, since I understand whipe as cleaning inside it)
> and ran mtx-run --generate then context --auto.
> When I tried afterwards to compile those new binaries, I get this
> error
> 
> This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.01.0
> 
> resolvers       > caches > fatal error: there is no valid writable cache
> path defined
> 
> Running mtx-run --generate on my user account did not solve the problem.
> I certainly did something wrong.
> I tried to revert to the standard lmtx binaries running install.sh
> but those errors are still here.
there has to be a texmf-cache path, you only wipe what is below that

Hans


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-15 20:20 Damien Thiriet
2019-11-16  9:00 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2019-11-15 20:52 Damien Thiriet

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