Re: Re: Installation problem

[Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:29:17AM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > Well, I've deleted all the old ConTeXt directories, reinstalled the new
> > version, copied the *.rme files to *.ini (or whatever they are supposed
> > to be ... I think), regenerated the 'en', 'nl', and 'metafun' formats,
> > and run texhash ... I'm still getting the same error.
> 
> did you update texexec and texutil?

They are symlinks, so yes, unzipping the new archive updated them.

> > BTW, this is a very new release of ConTeXt--June 16, according to the 
> > Pragma Web site. Has anyone used this version successfully?
> 
> The current beta is 2004.6.20 (see
> http://members.ping.de:8062/context/show/HomePage ;-)

Okay, tried that, no change.

I also tried creating /usr/bin/cont-en as a symlink to pdfetex and
pdftex (not at the same time, of course). The results were, well,
different:

First, with cont-en as a link to pdftex:

| matt@crawdad:/var/tmp$ texexec ut.tex 
| 
|  TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
| 
|             executable : pdfetex
|                 format : cont-en
|              inputfile : ut
|                 output : standard
|              interface : en
|           current mode : none
|                TeX run : 1
| 
| This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw (Web2C 7.3.7)
| I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!
| 
|            return code : 256
|               run time : 1 seconds
| 
|         total run time : 4 seconds

Can't find 'cont-en.fmt'? Well, that makes sense, doesn't it? Since, as
I understand it, ConTeXt normally uses pdfetex, which would need
cont-en.efmt. But it was worth a try.

So then I tried pdfetex:

| matt@crawdad:/var/tmp$ texexec ut.tex 
| 
|  TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
| 
|             executable : pdfetex
|                 format : cont-en
|              inputfile : ut
|                 output : standard
|              interface : en
|           current mode : none
|                TeX run : 1
| 
| This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7)
| This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7)
| (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
| **
| ! End of file on the terminal... why?
| entering extended mode
| (./ut.tex
| Error: cont-en (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file
| 
|            return code : 65280
|               run time : 3 seconds
| 
|         total run time : 6 seconds

Hmm ... two questions here: what is the 'End of file on the terminal?'
Is that referring to natural.tcx (which comes from the ConTeXt
distribution)? And what about pdftex.cfg? Indeed, it doesn't exist. But
it doesn't exist on the machines where I have ConTeXt working, either.
So I don't know if either of the above results are meaningful.

Oh, by the way, the input file was this:

  \usetypescriptfile [type-utopia]
  \usetypescript [UtopiaFace]

  \showbodyfont [Utopia]

  \end

And yes, the typescript in question is available; both it and this test
file have worked for me on another machine.

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