On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Norbert Preining wrote: > I will try to run it in a clean cowbuilder with only the build-deps > installed and see what might be the reason.
Just done this, too, worked without a hinch: 'lualatex' '--interaction' 'errorstopmode' '--jobname' 'lualatex-example' '\RequirePackage[extension=.pdf]{texdepends}\input{lualatex-example.tex}' This is LuaTeX, Version 0.95.0 (TeX Live 2016/Debian) restricted system commands enabled. LaTeX2e <2017/01/01> patch level 1 (using cache: /var/lib/texmf/luatex-cache/generic) luaotfload | main : initialization completed in 0.102 secondsBabel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 1 language(s) loaded. (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latex-make/texdepends.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)) (./lualatex-example.tex (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo luaotfload | db : Font names database not found, generating new one. luaotfload | db : This can take several minutes; please be patient.(compiling luc: /var/li b/texmf/luatex-cache/generic/fonts/otl/lmroman10-regular.luc)(save: /var/lib/te xmf/luatex-cache/generic/fonts/otl/lmroman10-regular.lua)(save: /var/lib/texmf/ luatex-cache/generic/fonts/otl/lmroman10-regular.luc))) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/lualatex/luacode/luacode.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifluatex.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luatexbase/luatexbase.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/ctablestack/ctablestack.sty))) No file lualatex-example.aux. [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./lualatex-example.aux) ) 371 words of node memory still in use: 2 hlist, 1 vlist, 1 rule, 7 glue, 5 attribute, 40 glue_spec, 5 attribute_lis t, 1 write nodes avail lists: 2:19,3:2,4:2,5:13,6:34,7:25,8:1,9:6,11:2 </usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-regular.otf> Output written on lualatex-example.pdf (1 page, 4483 bytes). Transcript written on lualatex-example.log. One idea: is /var writable??? Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13