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Texlive errors and weird behavior

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From: Wojtek Kosior <koszko <at> koszko.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Cc: Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Texlive errors and weird behavior
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:19:38 +0200

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Hello,

I'm having some problems using texlive after the recent tex-team merge.
On my system (with texlive installed in a profile, together with many
other packages) the tools complain about 'lualatex.fmt', 'pdflatex.fmt',
etc. missing. Before the merge I have been using texlive without ever
experiencing such problems.

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example$ guix describe
Generation 13	Jul 25 2023 11:46:08	(current)
  guix 76e041f
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 76e041f9eef85bb039c5251d3350c62ee2066883
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example$ ls
minimal.tex
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example$ cat minimal.tex 
\documentclass{article}
\title{somedoc}
\begin{document}

aaa

\end{document}
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example$ lualatex minimal.tex 
This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.16.0 (TeX Live 2023/GNU Guix) 
 restricted system commands enabled.

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt lualatex.fmt
mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:
mktexfmt:   /home/urz/.texlive2023/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
mktexfmt [INFO]: writing formats under /home/urz/.texlive2023/texmf-var/web2c
mktexfmt [INFO]: Did not find entry for byfmt=lualatex skipped
mktexfmt [INFO]: total formats: 0
mktexfmt [INFO]: exiting with status 0
I can't find the format file `lualatex.fmt'!
#+END_EXAMPLE

I tried to reduce it to a small, reproducible example using
`guix shell -C`. Surprisingly, now I managed to compile this document
inside a container. But also surprisingly, it took very long to do so.
Also, lualatex automatically created a directory named '{' in the
current working directory.

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example$ guix describe
Generation 13	Jul 25 2023 11:46:08	(current)
  guix 76e041f
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 76e041f9eef85bb039c5251d3350c62ee2066883
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example$ ls /tmp/example/
minimal.tex
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example$ cat minimal.tex 
\documentclass{article}
\title{somedoc}
\begin{document}

aaa

\end{document}
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example$ guix shell texlive coreutils which -C
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example [env]$ lualatex minimal.tex 
This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.16.0 (TeX Live 2023/GNU Guix) 
 restricted system commands enabled.
(./minimal.tex
LaTeX2e <2022-11-01> patch level 1
 L3 programming layer <2023-02-22> (/gnu/store/vld5rj0438d7vfihvbhk7p56jigm71xk-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2022/07/02 v1.4n Standard LaTeX document class
(/gnu/store/vld5rj0438d7vfihvbhk7p56jigm71xk-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
luaotfload | db : Font names database not found, generating new one.
luaotfload | db : This can take several minutes; please be patient.)) (/gnu/store/vld5rj0438d7vfihvbhk7p56jigm71xk-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-luatex.def)
No file minimal.aux.
(/gnu/store/vld5rj0438d7vfihvbhk7p56jigm71xk-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd) [1{/gnu/store/vld5rj0438d7vfihvbhk7p56jigm71xk-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./minimal.aux))
 406 words of node memory still in use:
   3 hlist, 1 vlist, 1 rule, 2 glue, 3 kern, 1 glyph, 4 attribute, 48 glue_spec, 4 attribute_list, 1 write nodes
   avail lists: 2:23,3:4,4:2,5:22,6:2,7:34,9:18
</gnu/store/s6w8r5q3aql1bhasv0nmwr5xgjv6qnhh-texlive-texmf-20230313/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-regular.otf>
Output written on minimal.pdf (1 page, 2610 bytes).
Transcript written on minimal.log.
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example [env]$ ls -a
 .   ..   minimal.aux   minimal.log   minimal.pdf   minimal.tex  '{'
urz <at> GuixPad /tmp/example [env]$ ls \{/gnu/store/vld5rj0438d7vfihvbhk7p56jigm71xk-profile/share/      
texmf-dist}  texmf-var
#+END_EXAMPLE

Best,
Wojtek

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Message #8 received at 64852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Wojtek Kosior via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Wojtek Kosior <koszko <at> koszko.org>, 64852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64852: Texlive errors and weird behavior
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:45:42 +0200

Hello,

Wojtek Kosior via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I'm having some problems using texlive after the recent tex-team merge.
> On my system (with texlive installed in a profile, together with many
> other packages) the tools complain about 'lualatex.fmt', 'pdflatex.fmt',
> etc. missing. Before the merge I have been using texlive without ever
> experiencing such problems.

These files are provided by the `texlive-latex-bin' package. Your
profile should probably contain `texlive-collection-latex' to get it
along with some very important LaTeX packages.

Would you want to share the TeX Live packages you listed in your
profile?

> I tried to reduce it to a small, reproducible example using
> `guix shell -C`. Surprisingly, now I managed to compile this document
> inside a container. But also surprisingly, it took very long to do so.
> Also, lualatex automatically created a directory named '{' in the
> current working directory.

These two issues were reported in another bug report. Unfortunately, at
the moment, I do not know where they do come from.

Concerning the second issue, the "{" directory, I do know that
monolithic TeX Live modifies "texmfcnf.lua" (see `texlive-texmf'
package) whereas modular TeX Live (in `texlive-luatex' package) doesn't.

I think this "texmfcnf.lua" file should be modified in a proper way to
fix this issue, but I don't know how.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Message #16 received at 64852-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Wojtek Kosior <koszko <at> koszko.org>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: 64852-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64852: Texlive errors and weird behavior
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:54:48 +0200

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Firstly, I apologize — I started replying in the other issue and
neglected this conversation without providing the extra info you asked
for to help me.

> > I'm having some problems using texlive after the recent tex-team merge.
> > On my system (with texlive installed in a profile, together with many
> > other packages) the tools complain about 'lualatex.fmt', 'pdflatex.fmt',
> > etc. missing. Before the merge I have been using texlive without ever
> > experiencing such problems.

This part of the problem was purely my fault — I updated the profile
with new texlive but some shells were still using the old set of
environment variables for this profile. Sorry about that!

> These files are provided by the `texlive-latex-bin' package. Your
> profile should probably contain `texlive-collection-latex' to get it
> along with some very important LaTeX packages.
> 
> Would you want to share the TeX Live packages you listed in your
> profile?

I've been using just `texlive` (which seemed to be *the* package for
people who just want to have things work out of the box and don't care
much about saving space/bandwidth). Sorry for not making this clear
enough.

Since this is a duplicate, I'll continue the discussion in #64772

Wojtek

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:45:42 +0200 Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Wojtek Kosior via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm having some problems using texlive after the recent tex-team merge.
> > On my system (with texlive installed in a profile, together with many
> > other packages) the tools complain about 'lualatex.fmt', 'pdflatex.fmt',
> > etc. missing. Before the merge I have been using texlive without ever
> > experiencing such problems.  
> 
> These files are provided by the `texlive-latex-bin' package. Your
> profile should probably contain `texlive-collection-latex' to get it
> along with some very important LaTeX packages.
> 
> Would you want to share the TeX Live packages you listed in your
> profile?
> 
> > I tried to reduce it to a small, reproducible example using
> > `guix shell -C`. Surprisingly, now I managed to compile this document
> > inside a container. But also surprisingly, it took very long to do so.
> > Also, lualatex automatically created a directory named '{' in the
> > current working directory.  
> 
> These two issues were reported in another bug report. Unfortunately, at
> the moment, I do not know where they do come from.
> 
> Concerning the second issue, the "{" directory, I do know that
> monolithic TeX Live modifies "texmfcnf.lua" (see `texlive-texmf'
> package) whereas modular TeX Live (in `texlive-luatex' package) doesn't.
> 
> I think this "texmfcnf.lua" file should be modified in a proper way to
> fix this issue, but I don't know how.
> 
> Regards,

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