[NTG-context] the system not working on Linux 32 with Context-lmtx

[Jan Mikkelsen]

Hi,

I had/have a very similar problem on FreeBSD with TeXLive 2021, with the same context.lua not found message, which I posted about a while ago.

I “resolved” it by setting TEXMF to point to my texmf-dist directory, in my case /usr/local/share/texmf-dist. It would be nice for it to work without setting TEXMF.

Without setting TEXMF, running "mtxrun —generate” guesses a little differently, then attempts to scan all of /usr, and then fails when parts have no read permission.

I suspect it is working when you are in /usr/share/texmf-dist because the “collapsepath” function in mtxrun is collapsing “/../..” from /usr/bin to “.” instead of “/“. (Which seems like a bug, but I’m not sure.)

If I run “TEXMF=/usr/local/share/texmf-dist context file.tex” things run correctly, and a ~/.texlive2021 directory is created. Running “TEXMF=/usr/local/shared/texmf-dist mtxrun —generate” runs without error but also doesn’t generate a ~/.texlive2021 directory.

The real problem seems to be that mtxrun doesn’t deal well with the filesystem layout case of “/top-level/bin/mtxrun” and “/top-level/share/texmf-dist”.

Regards,

Jan M.

> On 29 Jun 2022, at 11:13, Alain Delmotte via ntg-context <ntg-context at ntg.nl> wrote:
> 
> Le 27/06/2022 à 22:32, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context a écrit :
>> On 6/27/22 20:00, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
>>> Am 27.06.22 um 19:10 schrieb Alain Delmotte via ntg-context:
>>>> […]
>>>> When I run from the console:
>>>> context sanstitre-2.tex
>>>> mtxrun          | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'
>>>> […]
>>>> What should I do?
>>> […]
>>> Try to rebuild the database: mtxrun --generate
>> Hi Alain,
>> 
>> as Hraban points out, "mtxrun --generate" is your friend.
>> 
>> I can simply reproduce you error with:
>> 
>>   mtxrun --scripts cache --erase
>> 
>> So I get:
>> 
>>   $ context
>>   mtxrun | unknown script 'mtx-context.lua' or 'mtx-mtx-context.lua'
>> 
>> Everything works fine again after I run:
>> 
>>   mtxrun --generate.
>> 
>> Before the first run after installation, this command is mandatory to
>> build the database.
>> 
>> I hope it helps,
>> 
>> Pablo
> 
> Hi Pablo and Haram,
> 
> When I was running mtxrun --generate, there was an interference with TeX Live, so I uninstalled it, then it worked. I do not know if that time I did run mtxrun. But under TeXworks when I selected context as program it kept electing luametatex, and it didn't work; so I manually wrote "context" and it worked!!
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Alain
> 
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