Bug#755751: texlive-luatex: can't use fontspec, as get error: LuaTeX error .../texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-parsers.lua:288: attempt to call local 'find_files' (a nil value).

[Daniele Tricoli <eriol@mornie.org>]

Hello Julian,

On Wednesday 23 July 2014 00:38:38 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I'm a bit stymied - what might a fix for this be?

I had your same problem. Unfortunately after discovering it was not occurring 
using a just created user I deleted from my HOME some config files related to 
fonts and fontconfig and lualatex worked again... but I did not have the time 
to document it so I can't tell you exactly what to do. First can you try if 
using a new user (so no configuration font related) lulatex just works?

On my history file I have:
  202  rm -rf generic/
  228  rm -rf fonts/
  235  rm -rf tex/
  314  rm -rf luatex-cache/
  334  rm -rf .fontconfig/

As you can see I removed also my personal installed fonts, but they were not 
causing the problem.

Please can you report here if you find what config file is harming lualatex?

HTH,

-- 
 Daniele Tricoli 'Eriol'
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