From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/69180 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: /usr/bin/luatools:2329: bad argument #1 to '(for generator)' (directory metatable expected, got nil) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4DF860F4.8050909@wxs.nl> References: <20110614164802.GB32095@gpm.stappers.nl> <4DF79F84.6030500@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308123405 30244 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2011 07:36:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:36:45 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jun 15 09:36:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWkeV-0003TL-Rc for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17409CADBA; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id hFhSITAQKJr8; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C0ACADA8; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0B6CADA8 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id U9kur+QOU1af for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D341CAD9E for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p5F7aUvC025822 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:30 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 3702-1713362 for multiple; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:22 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eEU7AuDT - 390c9c3085c2 - 20110615 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:69180 Archived-At: On 14-6-2011 8:57, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> On 14-6-2011 6:48, Stappers wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> While doing >>> >>> context foo >>> >>> I do get >>> >>> LuaTools | merging library >>> /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/data-ctx.lua >>> LuaTools | merging library >>> /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/luat-fio.lua >>> LuaTools | merging library >>> /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/luat-cnf.lua >>> LuaTools | saving merge from cont-en.lua >>> LuaTools | using compiled initialization file: cont-en.luc >>> LuaTools | using lua initialization file: cont-en.luc >>> /usr/bin/luatools:2329: bad argument #1 to '(for generator)' >>> (directory metatable expected, got nil) >>> >>> >>> What should I do to get beyond that error message? >>> >>> I'm using Debian on an AMD64, context package is version 2009.11.26-2 >> >> way too old .. luatex as well as context moved on (and luatools in no >> longer used) > > FWIW, I get the same error message on my TL2010 installation. > > $luatex --version > This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.67.0-2011042320 (rev 4192) > > $context --version > MTXrun | main context file: > /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/context.tex > MTXrun | current version: 2010.05.24 13:05 > > $context --make > MTXrun | running command: luatools --make --compile cont-en > ..... > LuaTools | using compiled initialization file: cont-en.luc > LuaTools | using lua initialization file: cont-en.luc > /usr/bin/luatools:2734: bad argument #1 to '(for generator)' (directory > metatable expected, got nil) > .... > > I am pretty sure that ConTeXt in TL2010 was working at some stage and > failed after I updated. I normally just use the minimals, so I never > bothered to dig into this. There has been a change in the lua lfs functions dealing with dir scanning and although the context lua code has been adapted to this, it might not be the case in all distributions. So, it's an unlucky combination of older / newer code. 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