Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats

John Devereux writes:

Michael Green writes:

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I'm getting the following error when running this command: luatools -- ini --verbose --compile cont-en

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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. -- John Devereux