On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For I had some problems with my installation I tried to start from > scratch. But I'm stuck with an error in mtxrun: > > Welcome to Darwin! > user$ cd /usr/local/ConTeXt/ > /usr/local/ConTeXt user$ rsync -ptv > rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . > first-setup.sh > > sent 115 bytes received 1757 bytes 1248.00 bytes/sec > total size is 1638 speedup is 0.88 > /usr/local/ConTeXt user$ ./first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done > bin/ > bin/mtx-update-old.lua > bin/mtx-update.lua > bin/mtxrun > bin/texlua > > sent 186 bytes received 6127742 bytes 331239.35 bytes/sec > total size is 6126659 speedup is 1.00 > MtxRun | version 1.1.0 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT > > MtxRun | variable SELFAUTOLOC set to /usr/local/ConTeXt/bin > MtxRun | variable SELFAUTODIR set to /usr/local/ConTeXt > MtxRun | variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to /usr/local > MtxRun | variable TEXMFCNF set to > {$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c} > MtxRun | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) > MtxRun | using script: bin/mtx-update.lua > > state | loaded > update | start > /usr/local/ConTeXt/bin/mtxrun:1741: attempt to index a nil value > > > And that's it. > > Line 1741 of mtxrun contains a popen command to execute a system > command; but even if I change that (e.g. printing the accessed > variable before), the error stays at that line, so the message is > probably wrong. > > Please help?
I had the same problem. I then gave the command as: sudo ./first-setup.sh That succeeded, and the resulting ConTeXt installation seems to run correctly - but I'm not smart enough to know why this worked or why it should be necessary. David ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________