Bug#913586: texlive-binaries 2018.20181104.49075-1 breaks context

[Thanasis Kinias <kinias.t@husky.neu.edu>]

Yes! “attempt to call upvalue 'isfile' (a nil value)” was the error that would break compilation after I updated this morning.

I’m not entirely sure why the format-generation problem is preventing installation now, whereas this morning it updated successfully but wouldn’t run—but I’m glad you can reproduce the error.

Given that at least in some situations, attempting to install the texlive-binaries package currently in testing will cause apt to hang, this seems like it could be a fairly serious problem.

—TK

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 17:07, Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de> wrote:

On 12.11.18 21:48, Thanasis Kinias wrote:

Hi,

> Ah yes, of course.  Sorry I failed my reading comprehension task :)
>
> Here are just the logfiles from under /var/lib/texmf/web2c.
>
I'm sorry there is no valuable information in your log files. Probably
b/c the program even started running and even wrote a log file...However
I'm able to reproduce the problem and extracted the command line
probably leading to your problem:

hille@amd64-sid:~$ luatex --ini
--lua=/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/mkiv/luat-cod.lua
/tmp/cont-en.mkiv dum
This is LuaTeX, Version 1.09.0 (TeX Live 2019/dev/Debian)  (INITEX)
 system commands enabled.
error in callback:
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/mkiv/luat-cod.lua:166: attempt to call
upvalue 'isfile' (a nil value)
.
<insert>

<*> /tmp/cont-en.mkiv
                   dum
?

..and the format generation hangs. I had to kill the luatex run.

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Thanasis Kinias
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