Re: detailed 'diagnostic' of MikTeX/Lua*/fontspec issues

···<date: 2013-07-02, Tuesday>···<from: Evan Cooch>···

> 
> On 6/30/2013 6:17 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> >···<date: 2013-06-29, Saturday>···<from: Evan Cooch>···
> >
> >>>>>Not a luaotfload thing, as I wrote previously, this could be a
> >>>>>buggy font. Does it terminate correctly if you run:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     luaotfload-tool --update --force --verbose=5 --dry-run
> >>>>>
> >>>>>?
> >>>>No -- with or without the --dry-run flag, it terminates. The
> >>>>termination always occurs after it has started scanning my working
> >>>>directory (which happens to be the Desktop for my account, which
> >>>>again is an admin account).
> >>>Please try the attached patch for luaotfload.
> >>>
> >>OK - if you tell me what to do with the patch. If this was a Linux
> >>machine, I know how to apply patches. This is a Windows machine - do
> >>I need to run something, or simply copy and paste from the patch
> >>into something else?
> >>
> >>Thanks!
> >Sorry, I didn't consider that. Here's the patched file:
> >
> >     https://gist.github.com/phi-gamma/5894615
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Philipp
> >
> 
> 
> Tried the patch -- doesn't seem to ork. When I run luaotfload-tool
> --update --force, I now get an error about database not found, and a
> bunch of other error messages:
> 
> 
> ... (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\scripts\luaotfload\luaotfload-tool.lua:135: module 'luaotfload-database' not found:
> 	no field package.preload['luaotfload-database']
> 	[luatexbase.loader] Loading error:
> 	...MiKTeX 2.9/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-database.lua:2: unexpected symbol near '<'
> 	[kpse C searcher] file not found: 'luaotfload-database'
> 

As the message says, something on line 2 of your
luaotfload-database.lua makes the parser choke. Since “>” isn’t
supposed to be anywhere near that line I suspect that your file
is corrupt.

Best,
Philipp

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