On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-10-08 um 10:12 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
I don't think it's in the LuaTeX area, for LuaTeX is just a regular process.
Hm, I suspect it might be some system call inside LuaTeX that is blocked or the like.
I have to admit that I have run into similar problems with different software I tried to run from a "server process" (whatever this means) and it always took me some time to get it right. At the end it was aways clear to me why it wouldn't run (but I can't remember anymore, since it is many years ago). So I suggest to replace the LuaTeX call with different other software and see where it breaks. Use software that reads STDIN, that writes to STDOUT/STDERR and alike and see if they are ok.
A simple case like python -c "print 'Hello'" works ok. I tried shell commands and simple tools (echo, set, date, touch) before, and strace works, too.
Even "texlua --help" works, so it's not texlua generally.
texlua --script context --batchmode --once hello gives: "Script file context not found" (at least a usable error message, nothing hangs) The same with /var/opt/context/tex/setuptex && texlua --script context --batchmode --once hello I use something like this os.system("""bash -c 'cd /opt/luatex/minimals-new/tex ; source setuptex ; echo $PATH;cd "%(jobpath)s" && context --batch "%(filetex)s" 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null'""" %kv)
-- luigi