Cannot generate "font names database"

Rolf Niepraschk <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:51:34 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I installed TeX Live 2026 (schema full). The first lualatex test failed 
to complete the generation of the "Font names database". The subsequent 
command

luaotfload-tool --update --force -vvv

stalled (using 100% CPU) at

...
luaotfload | db : Loading font 
/usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/helmholtz-ellis-ji-notation/HEJI2Text.otfluaotfload 
| db : Invalid names table of font HEJI2Text.otf, using dummies. 
Reported: fontname="nil", fullname="nil".
luaotfload | db : Loading font 
/usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/lxgw-fonts/LXGWNeoXiHei.ttf

After temporarily removing the font files with

mv /usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/lxgw-fonts /tmp/

was the problem resolved. I'm working under Linux (32GB RAM). Is there a 
better solution than

tlmgr remove collection-langchinese

...Rolf