Re: Unable to generate luatex formats

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Michael Green wrote:
> I'm getting the following error when running this command: luatools -- 
> ini --verbose --compile cont-en
> 
> LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/usr/ 
> local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \\dump
> This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.2-2008041101 (Web2C 7.5.6)  
> (INITEX)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-prm.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat-env.tex
> ! LuaTeX error [string "luas[0]"]:1: attempt to call field  
> 'luafilechunk' (a nil value).

The environment.luafilechunk is defined in luat-env.lua, that should
have been loaded at this point ( a bit earlier in luat-env.tex ).

I think either

   /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat-env.tex

is not the one from the latest context distribution, or an extra
luatools --generate command is needed.

You can check the \contextversion by looking at

   /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex

around line 45, it should say

  \edef\contextversion{2008.04.11 14:48}


There can be some more esoteric causes,  but these are the two most
likely ones.

Best wishes,
Taco
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