Re: Unable to generate luatex formats

[John Devereux <jdREMOVE@THISdevereux.me.uk>]

John Devereux <jdREMOVE@THISdevereux.me.uk> writes:

> Michael Green <merely.ridiculous@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm getting the following error when running this command: luatools -- 
>> ini --verbose --compile cont-en
>
> [...]
>
> Hi, I am getting a similar error on debian unstable.
>
> Following the instructions in the debian README.MarkIV when I get to:
>
>   luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en
>
> I get the error
>
>   ! LuaTeX error [string "luas[0]"]:1: attempt to call field 'luafilechunk' (a nil value).
>
> (full listing at end of mail).
>
> I have not run the ctxtools --update since I m not sure if is
> appropriate for debian...
>
> Any ideas?

For the record, this now appears to be fixed thanks to help of Norbert
and Mojca.

[...]

Hi Norbert,

I updated debian and sure enough there is a new luatex - was that you?

But this in itself did not fix things immediately.

I then looked at /usr/local/share/texmf and now realise that this
installation is not the debian one, it must have come from something
off the website as you suspect.

I got rid of it with a rm -rf.

I then realised that my manual setting of TEXMF (suggested by Hans)
was wrong - I was only setting it to /usr/local/share/texmf which
omits most of tex. I think then when I generated the lua cache that is
why it could not find the fonts.

So I unset TEXMF and followed your README instructions again - and it
is working now it seems!

(I don't know whether the luatex update was needed or not).

Anyway thank you very much for your help, and Mojca too.


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John Devereux
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