From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/79313 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Suddenly can't run context Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:53:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <50A97901.6070402@meahan.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353286417 7874 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2012 00:53:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:53:37 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 19 01:53:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TaFcS-0006sI-Bh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:53:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936B810270; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:53:37 +0100 (CET) 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 C-uTp6PLdsaz; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:53:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBAD81022E; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:53:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3838C1022E for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:53:34 +0100 (CET) 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 fVMNzqi8UFDK for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:53:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2869E10229 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:53:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id qAJ12lHZ017238 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:02:48 +0100 Original-Received: FROM mint (bas3-montreal02-1096681419.dsl.bell.ca [65.94.7.203]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 50A98307.5D1D0.19687 ; Authuser adityam; 18 Nov 2012 19:53:27 EST In-Reply-To: <50A97901.6070402@meahan.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.12.86; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 01Ipd2LXA - c11aa1ce65df - 20121119 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:79313 Archived-At: On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Bill Meahan wrote: > Something has changed on my system and I can't find it. Perhaps someone can > point me where I should look. > > > I've had the texlive2012 installed since it came out and until a couple of > days ago everything worked just fine. All of a sudden, things changed. I did > nothing directly to the texlive distribution. > > wwm@escherton$ context --version gives the error output at the end of this > note > > wwm@escherton$ sudo context --version works just fine > > wwm@escherton$ mtxrun --version works just fine as does mtxrun --script fonts > --reload &c. > > I created a new user. > > context@escherton$ context --version works just fine > > I deleted the texlive distribution and re-installed it. No change. I've run > sudo context --generate several times with no change in behavior. I've > deleted the local .texlive2012 directory but since context won't run, it > doesn't get recreated. I can set TEXMF and then context will run but it takes > a much longer time than usual and the disk activity light is on almost solid. > > Any ideas? 1. Run mtxrun --generate as normal user followed by context --make; otherwise: 2. Something is messed up in $HOME/texmf or $HOME/.texlive2012. Rename these directories to something different and try again. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________