Re: [NTG-context] new beta

On 26-1-2011 9:41, Thomas Schmitz wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:26:18 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 26-1-2011 8:50, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

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On Tuesday 18 January 2011 20:13:36 Renaud AUBIN wrote:

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Hi Hans,

On Linux with debian minimals:

l.42 \loadmarkfile{catc-ini}

Please type another input file name: ! Emergency stop. <to be read again> \relax l.42 \loadmarkfile{catc-ini}

There appears to be a problem (for quite some time, not just for the current beta) of the robustness of \loadmarkfile{}. Indeed, quite often, the conditions under which this occurs is not clear to me, but almost systematically, updating the minimals gives such errors. The update succeeds by entering the full path, such as /usr/local/context/beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/catc-ini.mkiv and repeating the whole path many times, for all instances of unfound markfiles (under X11, right-click is your friend)!

It is strange, as the update process finds the other files perfectly well, and is really annoying.

it is probably a side effect of files being renamed, i.e. the new name is mkiv while the old one is tex; in that case the file database has to be rebuild (using mtxrun --generate); it can also happen when there are new files added

so, the main question is: why isn't "mtxrun --generate" run?

Hans

Yes, I have encountered this problem many times during the last weeks. Aborting the format-making, rerunning mtxrun --generate works too, after that, all the files that have been flagged before are found. So the question is: is mtxrun --generate maybe run too early in the process, before all the files are copied into their place?

I just synced the minimals on a xubuntu virtual machine and it works ok. I never saw that problem, and recently I updated 6 machines that ran the minimals without problems (and i see mtxrun --generate being run). Maybe next time capture all the messages on the console so that we can see what happens at your end. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------