Stuck in texmfstart

Stuck in texmfstart

[Neal Lester]

This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the 
loop at line 262.

It seems that in my thrashing around yesterday I made some transient 
change to the environment (I shut this system down at night).  Any 
idea what that is?  I also applied a kernel patch, so I suppose that 
could also be the problem.

Neal

Re: Stuck in texmfstart

[Neal Lester]

At 09:17 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote:
>This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the
>loop at line 262.

Placing

puts f

below line 266 ( f.gsub(...) do

prints:

$TEXROOT/texmf/{-local,}/web2c/texmf.cnf

(over and over again)

Re: Stuck in texmfstart

[gnwiii]

On 5/26/06, Neal Lester <neal@3dsafety.com> wrote:
> This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the
> loop at line 262.
>
> It seems that in my thrashing around yesterday I made some transient
> change to the environment (I shut this system down at night).  Any
> idea what that is?  I also applied a kernel patch, so I suppose that
> could also be the problem.

If a kernel patch breaks TeX I'd expect lots of other stuff to break as well.

It is easy to manually set one of the variables from texsetup and
forget to record the change somewhere that will survive reboots.  Did
you source texsetup manually (in the tex directory?

What do you get for "ruby `kpsewhich -format=texmfscripts texexec.rb`
...", which bypasses
texmfstart.rb, where you can try ...=--check, etc.?

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Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: Stuck in texmfstart

[Hans Hagen]

Neal Lester wrote:
> This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the 
> loop at line 262.
>   
you mean:

        loop do
            busy = false
            filenames.collect! do |f|
                f.gsub(/\$([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]*)/o) do
                    busy = true
                    ENV[$1] || ("$#{$1}")
                end
            end
            break unless busy
        end

can you try: 

        loop do
            busy = false
            filenames.collect! do |f|
                f.gsub(/\$([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]*)/o) do
                    busy = true
puts "#{f} => #{ENV[$1]}" 
                    ENV[$1] || ("$#{$1}")
                end
            end
            break unless busy
        end

and see what is reported


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Re: Stuck in texmfstart

[gnwiii]

On 5/26/06, Neal Lester <neal@3dsafety.com> wrote:
> At 09:17 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote:
> >This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the
> >loop at line 262.
>
> Placing
>
> puts f
>
> below line 266 ( f.gsub(...) do
>
> prints:
>
> $TEXROOT/texmf/{-local,}/web2c/texmf.cnf
>
> (over and over again)

Mine doesn't seem to enter this loop -- nothing is printed.   The
above line looks
like the entry from texsetup with an extra "/":

set TEXMFCNF=%TEXPATH%texmf{-local,}/web2c


-- 
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: Stuck in texmfstart

[Neal Lester]

At 10:38 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote:
>On 5/26/06, Neal Lester <neal@3dsafety.com> wrote:
> > At 09:17 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote:
> > >This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the
> > >loop at line 262.
> >
> > Placing
> >
> > puts f
> >
> > below line 266 ( f.gsub(...) do
> >
> > prints:
> >
> > $TEXROOT/texmf/{-local,}/web2c/texmf.cnf
> >
> > (over and over again)
>
>Mine doesn't seem to enter this loop -- nothing is printed.   The
>above line looks
>like the entry from texsetup with an extra "/":
>
>set TEXMFCNF=%TEXPATH%texmf{-local,}/web2c

What I did is copy setuptex to /etc/profile.d/setuptex.sh and then 
hard coded the value of TEXROOT in setuptex.sh instead of having the 
script set it from the command line argument.

echo $TEXMFCNF prints
$TEXROOT/texmf{-local,}/web2c

Neal 

Re: Stuck in texmfstart

[Hans Hagen]

Neal Lester wrote:
> At 10:38 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote:
>   
>> On 5/26/06, Neal Lester <neal@3dsafety.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> At 09:17 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote:
>>>       
>>>> This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the
>>>> loop at line 262.
>>>>         
>>> Placing
>>>
>>> puts f
>>>
>>> below line 266 ( f.gsub(...) do
>>>
>>> prints:
>>>
>>> $TEXROOT/texmf/{-local,}/web2c/texmf.cnf
>>>
>>> (over and over again)
>>>       
>> Mine doesn't seem to enter this loop -- nothing is printed.   The
>> above line looks
>> like the entry from texsetup with an extra "/":
>>
>> set TEXMFCNF=%TEXPATH%texmf{-local,}/web2c
>>     
>
> What I did is copy setuptex to /etc/profile.d/setuptex.sh and then 
> hard coded the value of TEXROOT in setuptex.sh instead of having the 
> script set it from the command line argument.
>
> echo $TEXMFCNF prints
> $TEXROOT/texmf{-local,}/web2c
>   
i'm puzzled because the loop you mentioned is not supposed to be entered 
unless you run texmfstart as a kpseserver

do you use the latest versions of texmfstart etc?

Hans

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Re: Stuck in texmfstart

[Neal Lester]

At 07:06 AM 5/27/2006, you wrote:
> > What I did is copy setuptex to /etc/profile.d/setuptex.sh and then
> > hard coded the value of TEXROOT in setuptex.sh instead of having the
> > script set it from the command line argument.
> >
> > echo $TEXMFCNF prints
> > $TEXROOT/texmf{-local,}/web2c
> >
>i'm puzzled because the loop you mentioned is not supposed to be entered
>unless you run texmfstart as a kpseserver
>
>do you use the latest versions of texmfstart etc?


I downloaded everything from pragma-ade.nl on last Thursday May 
27th.  The installation procedure I used is described in:

http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/018759.html

Neal