* Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
@ 2020-09-18 7:41 Felix Krause
2020-09-18 9:20 ` Otared Kavian
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From: Felix Krause @ 2020-09-18 7:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,
with MacTeX 2020 on a newly installed Mac, I have the problem that
ConTeXt doesn't work anymore:
$ context file.tex
mtx-context | warning: no format found, forcing remake
(commandline driven)
[…] snip lots of lines
resolvers | formats | changing to format path
'/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038c0000gp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex'
resolvers | formats | unable to change to format path
'/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038c0000gp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex'
mtx-context | error, no format found with name: cont-en,
aborting
system | total runtime: 5.315 seconds
The [ConTeXt docs][1] say that I should run `mtxrun --generate`, which
seems to run successfully, and `context --make`, which finishes with the
same „unable to change format path“ error (I believe this is what
context automatically does when compiling my file, hinted by the „no
format found. forcing remake“ message). I tried explicitly running
`context --make cont-en` which yields the same result. The given path
does exist on my hard drive.
I don't even know if the „unable to change format path“ message is
actually an error, but I have no other indicator of what goes wrong. The
only line that explicitly says „error“ is the one I get when trying
to process the file.
Interestingly, I have another Mac where I upgraded from MacTeX 2019 to
MacTeX 2020 and everything works there.
I made sure that everything is up-to-date with the TeX Live Utility.
How can I fix this problem?
Regards,
Felix
[1]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV
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2020-09-18 7:41 Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020 Felix Krause
@ 2020-09-18 9:20 ` Otared Kavian
2020-09-18 9:35 ` Felix Krause
2020-09-18 9:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-09-18 10:50 ` Arthur Rosendahl
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From: Otared Kavian @ 2020-09-18 9:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
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Hi Felix,
Some time ago I encountered the same problem and we had a thread on this list about this:
https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg95355.html
The problem on my Mac came from the fact that a directory
/opt/local/etc/texmf/
existed (installed by MacPorts, without me knowing it…) where ConTeXt tries to find a format, while there is none.
I removed that directory and then I could use ConTeXt from MacTex 2020.
Best regards: Otared
> On 18 Sep 2020, at 09:41, Felix Krause <contact@flyx.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> with MacTeX 2020 on a newly installed Mac, I have the problem that ConTeXt doesn't work anymore:
>
> $ context file.tex
> mtx-context | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline driven)
> […] snip lots of lines
> resolvers | formats | changing to format path '/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038c0000gp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex'
> resolvers | formats | unable to change to format path '/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038c0000gp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex'
> mtx-context | error, no format found with name: cont-en, aborting
> system | total runtime: 5.315 seconds
> The ConTeXt docs <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV> say that I should run mtxrun --generate, which seems to run successfully, and context --make, which finishes with the same „unable to change format path“ error (I believe this is what context automatically does when compiling my file, hinted by the „no format found. forcing remake“ message). I tried explicitly running context --make cont-en which yields the same result. The given path does exist on my hard drive.
>
> I don't even know if the „unable to change format path“ message is actually an error, but I have no other indicator of what goes wrong. The only line that explicitly says „error“ is the one I get when trying to process the file.
>
> Interestingly, I have another Mac where I upgraded from MacTeX 2019 to MacTeX 2020 and everything works there.
>
> I made sure that everything is up-to-date with the TeX Live Utility.
>
> How can I fix this problem?
>
> Regards,
> Felix
>
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* Re: Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
2020-09-18 9:20 ` Otared Kavian
@ 2020-09-18 9:35 ` Felix Krause
2020-09-18 9:43 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
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From: Felix Krause @ 2020-09-18 9:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
On 18 Sep 2020, at 11:20, Otared Kavian wrote:
> Hi Felix,
>
> Some time ago I encountered the same problem and we had a thread on
> this list about this:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg95355.html
>
> The problem on my Mac came from the fact that a directory
> /opt/local/etc/texmf/
> existed (installed by MacPorts, without me knowing it…) where
> ConTeXt tries to find a format, while there is none.
> I removed that directory and then I could use ConTeXt from MacTex
> 2020.
Hm. I don't have this directory (not using MacPorts) and my error seems
to be quite different (the scripts to be executed seem to be found).
I dug through the thread but for all I can see, nothing there describes
my problem or a solution for solving it.
Regards,
Felix
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* Re: Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
2020-09-18 9:35 ` Felix Krause
@ 2020-09-18 9:43 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2020-09-18 10:00 ` Felix Krause
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2020-09-18 9:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> On 18. Sep 2020, at 11:35, Felix Krause <contact@flyx.org> wrote:
>
> Hm. I don't have this directory (not using MacPorts) and my error seems to be quite different (the scripts to be executed seem to be found).
> I dug through the thread but for all I can see, nothing there describes my problem or a solution for solving it.
Then tell us a bit more about your system. What is the output of
which -a context
for example? Is
/var/folders/
the normal path where mactex would expect a format file? I use a Mac, but I have vanilla texlive installed; I never quite understood where mactex was any better, so I can’t test on my system.
Thomas
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* Re: Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
2020-09-18 9:43 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2020-09-18 10:00 ` Felix Krause
2020-09-18 10:36 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
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From: Felix Krause @ 2020-09-18 10:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 18 Sep 2020, at 11:43, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Then tell us a bit more about your system. What is the output of
>
> which -a context
/Library/TeX/texbin/context
which is an alias of
/Library/TeX/texbin/context@ ->
../../texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix/context
and texbin is
/Library/TeX/texbin@ -> Distributions/Programs/texbin
/Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin@ ->
../.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin
/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents@ ->
../TeXLive-2020.texdist/Contents
> for example? Is
>
> /var/folders/
>
> the normal path where mactex would expect a format file? I use a Mac,
> but I have vanilla texlive installed; I never quite understood where
> mactex was any better, so I can’t test on my system.
The directory name luatex-cache suggests it's used for caching. I
interpret the output like „something happens during the generation of
the format file and therefore the file never gets generated“. I don't
know much about the internals.
I don't really have any reason for using MacTeX over texlive; I was once
told that this is the thing I want to use on a Mac when I was a student,
and have used it ever since.
I could switch over and try texlive if nothing else helps, though I
think it would be good to pin down the cause of this error and tell the
MacTeX folks about it.
Regards,
Felix
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* Re: Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
2020-09-18 7:41 Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020 Felix Krause
2020-09-18 9:20 ` Otared Kavian
@ 2020-09-18 9:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-09-18 10:02 ` Felix Krause
2020-09-18 10:50 ` Arthur Rosendahl
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From: Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2020-09-18 9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
> Am 18.09.2020 um 09:41 schrieb Felix Krause <contact@flyx.org>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> with MacTeX 2020 on a newly installed Mac, I have the problem that ConTeXt doesn't work anymore:
>
> $ context file.tex
> mtx-context | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline driven)
> […] snip lots of lines
> resolvers | formats | changing to format path '/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038c0000gp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex'
> resolvers | formats | unable to change to format path '/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038c0000gp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex'
> mtx-context | error, no format found with name: cont-en, aborting
> system | total runtime: 5.315 seconds
Try to delete the luatex cache (i.e. all of /var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038c0000gp/T/luatex-cache) and try again.
HTH
Hraban
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* Re: Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
2020-09-18 7:41 Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020 Felix Krause
2020-09-18 9:20 ` Otared Kavian
2020-09-18 9:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
@ 2020-09-18 10:50 ` Arthur Rosendahl
2020-09-18 11:48 ` Felix Krause
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From: Arthur Rosendahl @ 2020-09-18 10:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users
I think I may have found the origin of the error:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 09:41:23AM +0200, Felix Krause wrote:
> resolvers | formats | changing to format path '/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038c0000gp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex'
> resolvers | formats | unable to change to format path '/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038c0000gp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex'
These messages come from the middle of the file luat-fmt.lua (lines
180 and 183, respectively, on my system) when ConTeXt tries to change
the working directory (that’s what “change” means in this context, just
moving to another directory, as in cd or chdir). The relevant extract
is
report_format("changing to format path %a",validformatpath)
lfs.chdir(validformatpath)
if dir.current() ~= validformatpath then
return fatalerror(startupdir,"unable to change to format path %a",validformatpath)
end
In your case validformatpath is a subdirectory of $TMPDIR, under
/var/folders/. However, if your Mac is anything like mine, /var is
actually a symbolic link to /private/var, so that dir.current() reports
a path starting with /private and the test fails.
You can work around that by setting TMPDIR to some other value, that
doesn’t start with /var -- and not /tmp either because that’s also a
symbolic link :-) It should work with a temporary directory in your
home folder. Can you try that?
Best,
Arthur
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2020-09-18 10:50 ` Arthur Rosendahl
@ 2020-09-18 11:48 ` Felix Krause
2020-09-18 12:49 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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From: Felix Krause @ 2020-09-18 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users
On 18 Sep 2020, at 12:50, Arthur Rosendahl wrote:
> I think I may have found the origin of the error:
>
> In your case validformatpath is a subdirectory of $TMPDIR, under
> /var/folders/. However, if your Mac is anything like mine, /var is
> actually a symbolic link to /private/var, so that dir.current() reports
> a path starting with /private and the test fails.
Yes, this is the setup here as well.
> You can work around that by setting TMPDIR to some other value, that
> doesn’t start with /var -- and not /tmp either because that’s also a
> symbolic link :-) It should work with a temporary directory in your
> home folder. Can you try that?
This works. Thanks a lot (also to everyone else involved)!
Regards,
Felix
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* Re: Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
2020-09-18 11:48 ` Felix Krause
@ 2020-09-18 12:49 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2020-09-18 18:28 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Arthur Reutenauer @ 2020-09-18 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:48:16PM +0200, Felix Krause wrote:
>> In your case validformatpath is a subdirectory of $TMPDIR, under
>> /var/folders/. However, if your Mac is anything like mine, /var is
>> actually a symbolic link to /private/var, so that dir.current() reports
>> a path starting with /private and the test fails.
>
> Yes, this is the setup here as well.
That was rhetorical :-) /var and /tmp (as well as /etc) have been
symbolic links for at least ten years, probably earlier.
>> You can work around that by setting TMPDIR to some other value, that
>> doesn’t start with /var -- and not /tmp either because that’s also a
>> symbolic link :-) It should work with a temporary directory in your
>> home folder. Can you try that?
>
> This works. Thanks a lot (also to everyone else involved)!
Glad to hear that, and you’re welcome, but this should also be fixed
in ConTeXt -- Hans, can you do something about that? It should be
enough to resolve symbolic links on either sides of the test
dir.current() ~= validformatpath
Best,
Arthur
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* Re: Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
2020-09-18 12:49 ` Arthur Reutenauer
@ 2020-09-18 18:28 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2020-09-18 18:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users, Arthur Reutenauer
On 9/18/2020 2:49 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:48:16PM +0200, Felix Krause wrote:
>>> In your case validformatpath is a subdirectory of $TMPDIR, under
>>> /var/folders/. However, if your Mac is anything like mine, /var is
>>> actually a symbolic link to /private/var, so that dir.current() reports
>>> a path starting with /private and the test fails.
>>
>> Yes, this is the setup here as well.
>
> That was rhetorical :-) /var and /tmp (as well as /etc) have been
> symbolic links for at least ten years, probably earlier.
>
>>> You can work around that by setting TMPDIR to some other value, that
>>> doesn’t start with /var -- and not /tmp either because that’s also a
>>> symbolic link :-) It should work with a temporary directory in your
>>> home folder. Can you try that?
>>
>> This works. Thanks a lot (also to everyone else involved)!
>
> Glad to hear that, and you’re welcome, but this should also be fixed
> in ConTeXt -- Hans, can you do something about that? It should be
> enough to resolve symbolic links on either sides of the test
> dir.current() ~= validformatpath
I need to find a problematic mac ... I remember that Taco did some tests
recently so I'll ask him.
Hans
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