Re: registered function call [1160]:...live/2023/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/l-sandbox.lua:87: cannot open /.: Permission denied - Alpine Linux

[Carlos via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 11:09:18PM +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> On 3/25/2023 10:36 PM, Carlos via ntg-context wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 09:45:25PM +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> > > On 3/25/2023 8:55 PM, Carlos via ntg-context wrote:
> > > 
> > > >           ...xlive/2023/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/font-syn.lua:1030: in upvalue 'walk_tree'
> > > Maybe your OSFONTDIR is pointing to empty. Does
> > 
> > Good call. Thank you for the reminder Hans. But no. That variable was set long ago . Even appended it to both the bash initialization file and also under /etc/profile (just in case here). Alpine uses ash so shells must be changed
> > 
> > > 
> > >    mtxrun --script font --reload
> > > 
> > fonts           | names | 3092 afm files checked,   okay
> > fonts           | names | identifying tree font files with suffix 'AFM'
> > fonts           | names | scanning path '/home/ce/.texlive2023/texmf-config' for AFM files
> > fonts           | names | 0 AFM files checked,   okay
> > fonts           | names | scanning path '/home/ce/texmf' for AFM files
> > fonts           | names | 0 AFM files checked,   okay
> > fonts           | names | scanning path '/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-config' for AFM files
> > fonts           | names | 0 AFM files checked,   okay
> > fonts           | names | scanning path '/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-var' for AFM files
> > fonts           | names | 0 AFM files checked,   okay
> > fonts           | names | scanning path '/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-local' for AFM files
> > fonts           | names | 24 AFM files checked,   okay
> > fonts           | names | scanning path '/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist' for AFM files
> > fonts           | names | 3092 AFM files checked,   okay
> > fonts           | names | 6232 tree files identified,  14 skipped,  14 duplicates,  6218 hash entries added,  runtime 8.458 seconds
> > fonts           | names | identifying system font files with suffix 'otf'
> > fonts           | names | variable 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path '/home/ce'
> > fonts           | names | variable 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path '/usr/share/fonts'
> > fonts           | names | globbing path '/home/ce/**.otf'
> > 
> > lua error : function call: /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linuxmusl/mtxrun.lua:649: cannot open /home/ce/cache/headers/imaps:@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/.: Permission denied
> 
> hm, but is home/ce/cache a path where there are fonts to be found? something

Not to my knownledge. It's just that that particular folder only has root permissions and not for the user. 

Recursively that is. Like you said. Only not with fonts.

> sets that path to be a fully recursive font dir
> 
> can you set OSFONTDIR to '/usr/share/fonts'
> 

it's already set 

echo $OSFONTDIR
/usr/share/fonts

> (personally i never use system fonts, i always put copies in
> texmf-fonts/fonts/data becasue system fonts can change or disappear)
> 

I'll probably do that. 

> > Recall that the other folders owned by root had to be moved out of the way
> > 
> > So it seems it wasn't enough, nope. Now it wants access elsewhere
> > 
> > bottom line: it wants root permissions or else fails flat out
> 
> well, it's not entirely clear what generates the permission denied; i can
> check for the home/ce being readable but doing that for every regular file
> below that would add lots of slow checks and i'm not even sure if it would
> fix it; i can try to check nested dirs but that then also obscures possible
> issues

You would know better than I do here. 

I somehow postponed this current issue thinking that a fresh TeX Live installation would resolve it once and for all. But no. 
> 
> Hans
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