Bug#409575: context: cont-en.fmt not found

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Kumar!

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> [kumar@debian ~] ls -ld /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex
> ls: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex: No such file or directory

Umpf ahaaa.

> [kumar@debian ~] ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex
> ls: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex: No such file or directory

This is bad. Very bad. But why did texexec not complain???

Can you do the following AS ROOT:

texmfsysvar=$(kpsewhich -expand-var '$TEXMFSYSVAR')
echo $texmfsysvar
TEXFORMATS=$texmfsysvar/web2c
desttree=$texmfsysvar
export TEXFORMATS
texexec --nonstopmode --fast --make --pdftex cont-en

I get in this case:
$ texmfsysvar=$(kpsewhich -expand-var '$TEXMFSYSVAR')
$ echo $texmfsysvar
/var/lib/texmf
$ TEXFORMATS=$texmfsysvar/web2c
$ desttree=$texmfsysvar
$ export TEXFORMATS
$ texexec --nonstopmode --fast --make --pdftex cont-en
TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich'
TeXExec | using existing database
TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex
TeXExec | using tex format path /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex
TeXExec | generating tex format cont-en
...
loads of texexec output
...
TeXExec | 
TeXExec | tex engine path: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex
TeXExec | 
TeXExec | tex: 05/02/2007 13:34:58 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt (6702017)
TeXExec | tex: 05/02/2007 11:48:30 > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/mptopdf.fmt (240024)
TeXExec | 
TeXExec | runtime: 13.033693
$


I assume that there the following problem at the end of your run:
TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich'
TeXExec | using existing database
TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex
TeXExec | using tex format path /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex
TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions
TeXExec | 
TeXExec | 
TeXExec | 
TeXExec | runtime: 0.217252


Can you confirm this?

Best wishes

Norbert

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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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