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
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