Re: Windows installer updated

[David Roderick <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>]

"Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jan 8, 2008 1:43 PM, David Roderick wrote:
>> "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Jan 7, 2008 9:47 PM, David Roderick wrote:
>> >> pop-up texlua.exe Application Error
>> >> The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022)
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > First: thanks a lot for reporting. (I have no windows here, but I had
>> > so many problems with rsync on windows ... that I might be willing to
>> > torture you until it works, just as I have tortured the windows
>> > machine I have been working on a while back :)
>> >
>> > I'm clueless about this (apart from the fact that it might be a rsync
>> > problem). Which windows are you using (XP or Vista)? (Not that I know
>> > if it's relevant at all.)
>> >
>> > Can you please try to dowload this:
>> >    http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip
>> > and try to run texlua.exe first?
>> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
>> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>> 2001 Microsoft Corp.
>>
>> C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>set CYGWIN=nontsec
>> set CYGWIN=nontsec
>>
>> C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>  rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/texlua.exe .
>>   rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/texlua.exe .
>> receiving file list ... done
>> texlua.exe
>>
>> sent 150 bytes  received 143 bytes  34.47 bytes/sec
>> total size is 2560  speedup is 8.74
>>
>> C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>texlua
>> texlua
>> Missing script file
>
> Great. This means that rsync works OK (otherwise you would be getting
> the same error report as last time: "The application failed to
> initialize properly"). What makes mo wonder now is: why doesn't the
> installer work? Perhaps the environmental variables aren't set up
> properly?
>
> You may try one more thing: can you try to set
>     CYGWIN=nontsec
> globally (I have no windows here to tell you the exact procedure - if
> you don't know how to do that, please ask again; it's somewhere in
> System->Advanced->Environmental variables->...).
>
> and then rum the installer again? But it really makes mo wonder where
> it goes wrong.
done 
no reboot

C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>texlua
texlua

C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>ls
ls
cygwin1.dll
kpathsea356.dll
luatex.dll
mtx-update.lua
mtxrun.cmd
mtxrun.lua
rsync.exe
texlua.exe

C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>texlua.exe
texlua.exe

C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/texlua.exe 
rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/texlua.exe 
receiving file list ... done
-rwxr-xr-x        2560 2007/09/08 02:06:20 texlua.exe

sent 116 bytes  received 85 bytes  36.55 bytes/sec
total size is 2560  speedup is 12.74

C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>


C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>rsync -av --exclude 'rsync.exe' --exclude 'cygwin1.dll' rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/
rsync -av --exclude 'rsync.exe' --exclude 'cygwin1.dll' rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/
receiving file list ... done
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2007/11/12 15:26:19 .
-rw-r--r--       68096 2007/12/23 13:31:00 kpathsea356.dll
-rw-r--r--     2997248 2007/12/18 12:24:18 luatex.dll
-rw-r--r--       10373 2008/01/02 21:26:29 mtx-update.lua
-rwxr-xr-x          79 2007/06/26 08:47:33 mtxrun.cmd
-rwxr-xr-x      250716 2007/12/29 21:33:01 mtxrun.lua
-rwxr-xr-x        2560 2007/09/08 02:06:20 texlua.exe

sent 138 bytes  received 211 bytes  63.45 bytes/sec
total size is 3329072  speedup is 9538.89

C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>

> I had a winows machine yesterday, but apparently the network had rsync
> port closed, so rsync didn't work at all (and installer reported:
> "installed successfully").
>
>> > Then, please try to run the following (from command and "cd
>> > path-to-unzipped-stuff\bin"):
>> >    set CYGWIN=nontsec
>> >    rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/texlua.exe .
>> > and then see if texlua still has any problems. If not,
>> Yes it still has problems therefore I did not do the following.
>
> That report is not a problem (only wrong usage, or missing argument),
> but texlua could have been more informative about that error, yes.
> Last time when you reported the error texlua apparently didn't work at
> all.
>
>> > try to run
>> > (single line, it will probably be broken in this mail):
>> >    rsync -av --exclude 'rsync.exe' --exclude 'cygwin1.dll'
>> > rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/ .

I tried this step before with global variable as CYGWIN=nontsec
 
C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin> rsync -av --exclude 'rsync.exe' --exclude 'cygwin1.dll' rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/ .
 rsync -av --exclude 'rsync.exe' --exclude 'cygwin1.dll' rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/mswin/bin/ .
receiving file list ... done
./
kpathsea356.dll
luatex.dll
mtx-update.lua
mtxrun.cmd
mtxrun.lua

sent 13490 bytes  received 9259 bytes  3033.20 bytes/sec
total size is 3329072  speedup is 146.34

C:\cygwin\home\David\download\lua\context\bin>

>> > Alternatively, you can try to run first-setup.bat (from command line
>> > as well) and see if your machine has problems with that.
>> Big thing happens.
>
> Well - the whole distribution is dowloaded (I guess), which is a good thing :)
>
>> However a problem
>>
>> sent 29442 bytes  received 6010615 bytes  48514.51 bytes/sec
>> total size is 21964526  speedup is 3.64
>> Cannot open C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local/ls-R to write.
>
> This is not a problem.
>
>> mktexlsr: Updating C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-mswin/ls-R...
>> mktexlsr: Updated C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-mswin/ls-R.
>> Cannot open C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-project/ls-R to write.
>> Cannot open C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-fonts/ls-R to write.
>
> Neither this. The directories don't exist, but that's no harm (perhaps
> mktexlsr could ignore those warnings just as it does on unix).
>
>> mktexlsr: Updating C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/ls-R...
>> mktexlsr: Updated C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/ls-R.
>> Cannot open C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-extra/ls-R to write.
>> mktexlsr: Updating C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/ls-R...
>> mktexlsr: Updated C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/ls-R.
>> mktexlsr: Done.
>
> mktexlsr aparently works so far.
>
>> LuaTools | skipping C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf
>> LuaTools | skipping C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/web2c/texmf.cnf
>> LuaTools | skipping C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
>> LuaTools | locating list of C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local
>> LuaTools | locating list of C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-mswin
>> LuaTools | locating list of C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-project
>> LuaTools | locating list of C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-fonts
>> LuaTools | locating list of C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context
>> LuaTools | locating list of C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-extra
>> LuaTools | locating list of C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf
>> LuaTools | scanning path C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-mswin
>> LuaTools | 105 files found on 8 directories with 1 uppercase remappings
>> LuaTools | scanning path C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context
>> LuaTools | 1298 files found on 125 directories with 0 uppercase remappings
>> LuaTools | scanning path C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf
>> LuaTools | 2185 files found on 68 directories with 56 uppercase remappings
>> LuaTools | preparing files in C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5f8b142e8ab6872a8c62f7e46179684b/trees/10f5048df22ac601f2e2e6ae9c3f97f4.tma
>> LuaTools | saving files in C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5f8b142e8ab6872a8c62f7e46179684b/trees/10f5048df22ac601f2e2e6ae9c3f97f4.tma
>> LuaTools | compiling files to C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5f8b142e8ab6872a8c62f7e46179684b/trees/10f5048df22ac601f2e2e6ae9c3f97f4.tmc
>> LuaTools | preparing files in C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5f8b142e8ab6872a8c62f7e46179684b/trees/07ba579fc1ebcd7b6593877fb4bdd462.tma
>> LuaTools | saving files in C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5f8b142e8ab6872a8c62f7e46179684b/trees/07ba579fc1ebcd7b6593877fb4bdd462.tma
>> LuaTools | compiling files to C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5f8b142e8ab6872a8c62f7e46179684b/trees/07ba579fc1ebcd7b6593877fb4bdd462.tmc
>> LuaTools | preparing files in C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5f8b142e8ab6872a8c62f7e46179684b/trees/57723006d36a89a2230ce5b349a66b37.tma
>> LuaTools | saving files in C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5f8b142e8ab6872a8c62f7e46179684b/trees/57723006d36a89a2230ce5b349a66b37.tma
>> LuaTools | compiling files to C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5f8b142e8ab6872a8c62f7e46179684b/trees/57723006d36a89a2230ce5b349a66b37.tmc
>> LuaTools |
>> LuaTools | runtime: 26.609 secondswarning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:
>
> OK, that's the only real problem so far. Apparently texmf.cnf is
> missing, or at leat it isn't found.

I have c:\localtexmf directory
I do not have a c:\texmf directory 
Miktex 2.7 has deleted it.
 
> This is where I get lost. What's wrong with the files? Where are they?
> (Do they exist?) A problem with cygwin paths perhaps?
> One thing that I could imagine is that md5 checksums might vary
> depending on whether one uses "cygwin" or normal paths, but there's no
> way for me to test that at the moment. Or perhaps some variables are
> set up the wrong way (stored with cygwin path, which is not seen by
> other applications).
>
> Do you have cygwin installed as well (only out of curiosity - in case
> it interferes with rsync's dll library)?

Yes I have the complete version of cygwin (6 months old)

>> C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/web2c
>> Trying to proceed...
>> warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:
>> C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/web2c
>> Trying to proceed...
>> warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:
>> C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/web2c
>
>
>> Trying to proceed...
>> TeXExec | using search method 'kpsefast'
>> TeXExec | using existing database
>> TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex
>> TeXExec | using tex format path C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdftex
>> TeXExec | generating tex format cont-en
>> warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:
>> C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/web2c
>> Trying to proceed...
>> warning: Could not open char translation file `natural.tcx'.
>> ! You have to increase POOLSIZE.
>> TeXExec | generating tex format cont-nl
>> warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:
>> C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/web2c
>> Trying to proceed...
>> warning: Could not open char translation file `natural.tcx'.
>> ! You have to increase POOLSIZE.
>> TeXExec | generating tex format mptopdf
>> warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:
>> C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/web2c
>> Trying to proceed...
>> warning: Could not open char translation file `natural.tcx'.
>> ! You have to increase POOLSIZE.
>> TeXExec | using mp engine mpost
>> TeXExec | using mps format path C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c
>> TeXExec | generating mps format metafun
>> warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:
>> C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/web2c;C:/cygwin/home/David/download/lua/context/tex/texmf/web2c
>> Trying to proceed...
>> warning: Could not open char translation file `natural.tcx'.
>> This is MetaPost, Version 1.002 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INIMP)
>> ! I can't find file `metafun'.
>> <*> metafun
>>
>> Please type another input file name:
>
> The same problem all over the place ...
>
>> > If you will be able to run texlua after that, then it's installer's
>> > fault (perhaps variables are not set properly) and you should complain
>> > to Vyatcheslav. If you'll have problems running texlua after that
>> > (same error as what you have already mentioned), then you should
>> > complan to rsync developers :) But it's definitely not my fault :) :)
>> > :)
>> >
>> Yesterday I got Miktex 2.7 basic setup install additional packages on the fly.
>> I got debugview also.  Is this any use?
>
> Of course it is. You can use MikTeX to compile your documents now :)
> (But LuaTeX won't work if you wonder about that.)
>
> The standalone has some advantages, but if you're only looking for
> something easy-to-use, MikTeX is extremely user-friendly. The minimals
> might not be propely debugged yet (as you might have noticed).
>
> But people like you can be very helpful to help with debugging, so i
> hope that you will have enough patience to help us getting rid of the
> problems you have spotted. Some of them only appear under certain
> conditions. Getting rid of them should be a priority.
>
>> Can you tell me what to do with
>> it.  This is all I can do for now because I do not have your sort of
>> knoweledge, and therefore can only do what you instruct.  The "you have
>> to increase POOLSIZE" bit looks very omininous.  Is it a problem?
>
> POOLSIZE has nothing to do with the problem you experience. The
> problem is that the file where this should be set (texmy.cnf) cannot
> be found, and possibly that some tools give you some wrong problem
> reports (it's difficult to test programs in so weird conditions).
>
> Mojca
>
>
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