If I run sudo texexec --nonstopmode --fast --make --pdftex metafun
explicitly it works ok (see below) but creates the format in /etc/texmf/web2c instead of /var/lib/texmf/web2c. I guess thats because ctxfmtutil finds another path using texmfsysvar=$(kpsewhich -expand-var '$TEXMFSYSVAR') which gives /var/lib/texmf But I don't know if this means anything at all ... Regards Bruce TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich' TeXExec | using existing database TeXExec | using mp engine mpost TeXExec | using mps format path /etc/texmf/web2c TeXExec | generating mps format metafun This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INIMP) (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-base.mp Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.63) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-spec.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-core.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-page.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-text.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-txts.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-shap.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-butt.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-char.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-step.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-grph.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-figs.mp) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-grid.mp (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-form.mp (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/string.mp) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/marith.mp (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/string.mp)))) (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-func.mp) ) Beginning to dump on file metafun.mem (mem=metafun 2007.4.14) at most 3038 strings of total length 40262 48330 memory locations dumped; current usage is 12622&35507 1761 symbolic tokens Transcript written on metafun.log. TeXExec | TeXExec | mps engine path: /etc/texmf/web2c TeXExec | TeXExec | mps: 14/04/2007 16:41:40 > /etc/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem (481444) TeXExec | TeXExec | runtime: 0.135917 On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:20:26PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Bruce MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: context > > Version: 2007.01.23-3 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > When upgrading from tetex on unstable, which moves over to texlive, > > context would not configure. The error message is: > > > > /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:553:in `mtime': No such > > file or directory - plain.mem (Errno::ENOENT) > > So you didn't already have a context package installed, only the ConTeXt > from teTeX? This upgrade "usually" works, so there's something special > on your system which our packages don't know about. > > First of all, there is no file "plain.mem", and therefore tex.rb > shouldn't be looking for one. The "plain mem" file which is reported > here: > > > from the log file: > > > > TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich' > > TeXExec | using existing database > > TeXExec | using mp engine mpost > > TeXExec | using mps format path /var/lib/texmf/web2c > > TeXExec | generating mps format metafun > > This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INIMP) > > (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) > > (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp > > (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-base.mp > > Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.63) > > is actually just mp-base.mp, a copy of metapost's plain.mp. Its format > dump is called mpost.mem, not plain.mem. > > > TeXExec | > > TeXExec | mps engine path: /var/lib/texmf/web2c > > TeXExec | > > I'm confused that metafun.mem ends up in /var/lib/texmf/web2c, not in > the pdftex subdir. This is also the case on my system, however: > > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:54 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/aleph.fmt (344826) > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:56 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/cont-en.fmt > > (5308859) > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:52 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.fmt (290175) > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:51 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt (247167) > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:56 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mptopdf.fmt > > (225950) > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:53 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/omega.fmt > > (1189914) > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:53 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.fmt > > (290209) > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:52 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt > > (260771) > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:52 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt > > (1980573) > > TeXExec | tex: 11/04/2007 16:57:53 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt > > (1980608) > > TeXExec | mps: 13/04/2007 16:09:07 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem > > (481444) > > These files do not exist on my system, they are in the respective > subdirectories. Are these files really there? What's the output of > > $ egrep '(^TEXFORMATS|^MFBASES|^MPMEMS)' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf > > > /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:553:in `mtime': No such > > file or directory - plain.mem (Errno::ENOENT) > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:553:in > > `filestate' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:712:in > > `makeformats' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:711:in `each' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:711:in > > `makeformats' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:706:in `each' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:706:in > > `makeformats' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:705:in `each' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/tex.rb:705:in > > `makeformats' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:37:in `make' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:133:in `send' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:133:in > > `execute' > > from /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:772 > > I don't understand ruby and am really helpless here. > > Regards, Frank > -- > Dr. Frank Küster > Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. > Zürich > Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
