Bug#915661: context: upgrade of context hangs on "Pregenerating ConTeXt MarkIV format."

[Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>]

tags 915661 + unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

Hi Vincent,

thanks for your message, very interesting.

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> root      9619  9618  0 17:36 pts/4    00:00:00 luatex --ini --lua=/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/mkiv/luat-cod.lua /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-en.mkiv dump
> 
> which started 20 minutes ago and has no activity according to
> "strace -p 9619".

I don't think that the strace on 9619 is useful, I guess there are other
processes started that luatex is waiting for. Most probably it is the
font caching that is done by context.

So if you have loads of big fonts or maybe strange fonts, then this
might create problems.

Can please look into what other depending processes are running?
I found
	px 9619
(or the PID of the luatex process on the next run) which uses px from
the px package a very useful tool ;-)

Best

Norbert

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