Sorry for the long email.

I ran the selfupdate:

% mtxrun --selfupdate  --verbose
MtxRun | variable SELFAUTOLOC set to /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin
MtxRun | variable SELFAUTODIR set to /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux
MtxRun | variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to /home/ciro/context/tex
MtxRun | variable TEXMFCNF set to /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c
MtxRun | loading configuration file /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua
MtxRun | loading configuration for /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c from /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3e64d452a8a0bdcae257a98fc8ef76f6/trees/2f8879b44d23456e76a2b13e4fc4fa9b
MtxRun | locating list of /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf
MtxRun | loading files for /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf from /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3e64d452a8a0bdcae257a98fc8ef76f6/trees/fef1be4e394a17a934e9d3021bf5aabc
MtxRun | to be replaced old script /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin/mtxrun
MtxRun | unable to locate new script

% luatools --selfupdate --verbose
LuaTools | version 1.2.2 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT

LuaTools | variable SELFAUTOLOC set to /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin
LuaTools | variable SELFAUTODIR set to /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux
LuaTools | variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to /home/ciro/context/tex
LuaTools | variable TEXMFCNF set to /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c
LuaTools | loading configuration file /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua
LuaTools | loading configuration for /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c from /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3e64d452a8a0bdcae257a98fc8ef76f6/trees/2f8879b44d23456e76a2b13e4fc4fa9b
LuaTools | locating list of /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf
LuaTools | loading files for /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf from /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3e64d452a8a0bdcae257a98fc8ef76f6/trees/fef1be4e394a17a934e9d3021bf5aabc
LuaTools | to be replaced old script /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin/luatools
LuaTools | unable to locate new script
LuaTools |
LuaTools | runtime: 0.033 seconds

I added script/context/lua to my path:

% echo $PATH
/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin:/home/ciro/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/ciro//context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.13/bin/

% mtxrun --scripts mtx-fonts --list
mtx-fonts.lua:11: attempt to index global 'resolvers' (a nil value)

mtxrun --verbose --scripts mtx-fonts --list
MtxRun | variable SELFAUTOLOC set to /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin
MtxRun | variable SELFAUTODIR set to /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux
MtxRun | variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to /home/ciro/context/tex
MtxRun | variable TEXMFCNF set to /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c
MtxRun | loading configuration file /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua
MtxRun | loading configuration for /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c from /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3e64d452a8a0bdcae257a98fc8ef76f6/trees/2f8879b44d23456e76a2b13e4fc4fa9b
MtxRun | locating list of /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf
MtxRun | loading files for /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf from /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3e64d452a8a0bdcae257a98fc8ef76f6/trees/fef1be4e394a17a934e9d3021bf5aabc
MtxRun |
MtxRun | executing: luatex --luaonly mtx-fonts.lua --list
MtxRun |
 
mtx-fonts.lua:11: attempt to index global 'resolvers' (a nil value)

Some information about my system:

% ll /home/ciro//context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua
total 740
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro  12565 2008-12-14 18:42 x-ldx.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro  25310 2008-12-14 18:42 scite-ctx.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro  11110 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-watch.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro  10395 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-server.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro    132 2008-12-14 18:42 mtxrun.rme*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro  14652 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-patterns.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro   4560 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-mptopdf.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro  10715 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-interface.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro   2751 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-grep.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro   6149 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-fonts.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro   3929 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-convert.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro  35233 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-context.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro   5157 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-check.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro   7581 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-chars.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro   3131 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-cache.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro  10963 2008-12-14 18:42 mtx-babel.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro    140 2008-12-14 18:42 luatools.rme*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro 227804 2008-12-14 18:42 luatools.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro  18722 2008-12-27 06:38 mtx-update.lua*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ciro ciro 295393 2008-12-27 06:38 mtxrun.lua*


% which tex
/usr/bin/tex

% env | grep -i tex
TEXMFOS=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux
TEXMFCACHE=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-cache
TEXMFPROJECT=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-project
TEXMFLOCAL=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-local
PATH=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin:/home/ciro/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/ciro//context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.13/bin/
TEXMFCONTEXT=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-context
TEXFORMATS=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/web2c
TEXMFDBS=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf
TEXMFEXTRA=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-extra
MPMEMS=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/web2c
HOMETEXMF=/nonexist
TEXMF=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf
TEXMFFONTS=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-fonts
RUBYLIB=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby:
TEXMFCNF=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf/web2c
TEXMFMAIN=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf



I uncommented some lines in setuptex:

cat setuptex
# Example setup file for ConTeXt distribution
#
# Author:  Hans Hagen
# Patches: Arthur R. & Mojca M.
#
# Usage:
#   . setuptex [texroot]
#
# On the first run also execute:
#   mktexlsr
#   texexec --make --alone

#
# PLATFORM
#

# we will try to guess the platform first
# (needs to be kept in sync with first-setup.sh and mtxrun)
# if yours is missing, let us know

system=`uname -s`
cpu=`uname -m`

case "$system" in
  # linux
  Linux)
    case "$cpu" in
      i*86) platform="linux" ;;
      x86_64|ia64) platform="linux-64" ;;
      ppc) platform="linux-ppc" ;;
      *) platform="unknown" ;;
    esac ;;
  # Mac OS X
  Darwin)
    case "$cpu" in
      ppc*|powerpc|power*|Power*) platform="osx-ppc" ;;
      i*86) platform="osx-intel" ;;
      *) platform="unknown" ;;
    esac ;;
  # FreeBSD
  FreeBSD|freebsd)
    case "$cpu" in
      i*86) platform="freebsd" ;;
      x86_64) platform="freebsd" ;;
      amd64) platform="freebsd-amd64" ;;
      *) platform="unknown" ;;
    esac ;;
  # SunOS/Solaris
  SunOS)
    case "$cpu" in
      sparc) platform="solaris-sparc" ;;
      i86pc) platform="solaris-intel" ;;
      *) platform="unknown" ;;
    esac ;;
  *) platform="unknown"
esac

if test "$platform" = "unknown" ; then
  echo "Error: your system \"$system $cpu\" is not supported yet."
  echo "Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)"
fi

#
# PATH
#

# this resolves to path of the setuptex script
# We use $0 for determine the path to the script, except for bash where $0
# always is bash; here we use BASH_SOURCE
# Thanks to Vasile Gaburici for reporting this (see
# http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/033953.html ff.)
if [ z"$BASH_SOURCE" != z ]; then
    SCRIPTPATH="$BASH_SOURCE"
else
    SCRIPTPATH="$0"
fi

OWNPATH=$(cd -P -- "$(dirname -- "$SCRIPTPATH")" && pwd -P)

# but one can also call
# . setuptex path-to-tree

TEXROOT=""
# first check if any path has been provided in the argument, and try to use that one
if [ $# -ne 0 ] ; then
    # TODO: resolve any errors
    ARGPATH=$(cd -P -- "$(dirname -- "$1")" && pwd -P) && ARGPATH=$ARGPATH/$(basename -- "$1")
    if test -f "$ARGPATH/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex" ; then
        TEXROOT="$ARGPATH"
        echo "Setting \"$TEXROOT\" as TEXROOT."
    else
        echo "The argument \"$ARGPATH\" is not a valid TEXROOT path."
        echo "There is no file \"$ARGPATH/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex\""

        if [ -f "$OWNPATH/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex" ]; then
            TEXROOT="$OWNPATH"
            echo "Setting \"$TEXROOT\" as TEXROOT instead."
        fi
    fi
else
    if [ -f "$OWNPATH/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex" ]; then
        TEXROOT="$OWNPATH"
        echo "Setting \"$TEXROOT\" as TEXROOT."
    else
        echo "\"$OWNPATH\" is not a valid TEXROOT path."
        echo "There is no file \"$OWNPATH/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex\""
    fi
fi

if [ "$TEXROOT" != "" ]; then

# export TEXROOT


# binaries & formats
TEXMFOS=$TEXROOT/texmf-$platform
export TEXMFOS

# base TeX files & fonts
export TEXMFMAIN=$TEXROOT/texmf
# ConTeXt
export TEXMFCONTEXT=$TEXROOT/texmf-context
# cache for LuaTeX
TEXMFCACHE=$TEXROOT/texmf-cache
export TEXMFCACHE

# user additions or modifications
export TEXMFLOCAL=$TEXROOT/texmf-local

# optional (by/for Hans)
export TEXMFFONTS=$TEXROOT/texmf-fonts
export TEXMFEXTRA=$TEXROOT/texmf-extra
export TEXMFPROJECT=$TEXROOT/texmf-project

# the next lines fail on dec alpha os's, so there you need
# to comment them (bug traced down by kees van marle/martin
# corrino)

export HOMETEXMF=/nonexist

export TEXMFCNF=$TEXROOT/texmf{-local,-context,}/web2c
export TEXMF={$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFCONTEXT,$TEXMFEXTRA,$TEXMFMAIN}
export TEXMFDBS=$TEXMF

export TEXFORMATS=$TEXMFOS/web2c{/$engine,}
export MPMEMS=$TEXFORMATS

unset TEXINPUTS MPINPUTS MFINPUTS

PATH=$TEXMFOS/bin:$PATH
export PATH
# TODO: OSFONTDIR

export RUBYLIB=$TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby:$RUBYLIB

# just to make sure that the binaries are executable
if ( (test -w "$TEXMFOS/bin/texmfstart") && (! test -x "$TEXMFOS/bin/texmfstart") ) ; then
   chmod 755 $TEXMFOS/bin/*
fi

export CTXMINIMAL=yes

else
    echo "provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex')" ;
fi

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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
Ciro Soto wrote:
another try:

*mtxrun --script mtx-fonts --list
*./mtx-fonts.lua:11: attempt to index global 'resolvers' (a nil value)

do you run an older copy of mtxrun or luatools? if so, try

mtxrun --selfupdate
luatools --selfupdate

or copy the scripts from script/context/lua to you bin path

maybe some older tex in your bin path?



also:
*
mtxrun --script fonts --list*
../fonts.lua:11: attempt to index global 'resolvers' (a nil value)

what is fonts.lua ?


worst of all, my  current book is not working now:

there must be something completely wrong with your system

if you install the minimals and then run the setuptex script the minimals should work in complete isolation and well ... work

Hans



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