* Stuck in texmfstart
@ 2006-05-26 16:17 Neal Lester
2006-05-26 16:43 ` Neal Lester
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From: Neal Lester @ 2006-05-26 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: Stuck in texmfstart
2006-05-26 16:17 Stuck in texmfstart Neal Lester
@ 2006-05-26 16:43 ` Neal Lester
2006-05-26 17:38 ` gnwiii
2006-05-26 17:27 ` gnwiii
2006-05-26 17:36 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Neal Lester @ 2006-05-26 16:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
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)
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* Re: Stuck in texmfstart
2006-05-26 16:43 ` Neal Lester
@ 2006-05-26 17:38 ` gnwiii
[not found] ` <22af238a0605261038o35a50774tfd3e4a87aff016a3@mail.gmail.co m>
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From: gnwiii @ 2006-05-26 17:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: Stuck in texmfstart
2006-05-26 16:17 Stuck in texmfstart Neal Lester
2006-05-26 16:43 ` Neal Lester
@ 2006-05-26 17:27 ` gnwiii
2006-05-26 17:36 ` Hans Hagen
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From: gnwiii @ 2006-05-26 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.?
--
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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* Re: Stuck in texmfstart
2006-05-26 16:17 Stuck in texmfstart Neal Lester
2006-05-26 16:43 ` Neal Lester
2006-05-26 17:27 ` gnwiii
@ 2006-05-26 17:36 ` Hans Hagen
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2006-05-26 17:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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