[OS X TeX] Unable to use the fontspec package with lualatex

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Luis Sequeira <lfsequeira at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I had a document that was typeset with lualatex last year and worked fine. 
>> Now (with mactex 2013), I cannot typeset unless I comment out the fontspec package. With \usepackage{fontspec} the typeset stalls for a few minutes (Activity Monitor shows lualatex at nearly 100% processor use) and then I get a crash (segmentation fault) of lualatex.
>> 
>> I suspected an old version of some package might be used from my personal tree, but the log does not show any.
>> Even the minimal example below shows the problem on my mac. For now, since I don't really need lualatex in this case, I can easily typeset, but I also had some documents using actual lua code, and these will be a problem.
>> Any suggestions are gratefully appreciated.
>> 
>> (to make matters worse for troubleshooting purposes, I cannot easily revert to texlive 2012, which is installed, since the prefpane does not work currently on Mavericks :-( )
>> 
>> Luis Sequeira
>> 
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>> Here is the very minimal example
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>> % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>> % !TEX TS-program = lualatex
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> 
>> \usepackage{fontspec} %if this line is commented out, no problem; like this, it crashes
>> 
>> \begin{document}
>> Hello!
>> 
>> 
>> \end{document}   
>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm NOT seeing that problem here!
> 
> First make sure you've updated your TL2013 using TeX Live Utility (or tlmgr directly).
> 
> Second try to remove any ~/Library/texlive/2013/texmf-var folder to your Desktop. Then run
> 
> luatools --generate
> 
> which will create a new texmf-var folder and contents which includes a font database. (At least that is what I remember --- others may know the incantation better.)
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

Don't know if that luatools command works but, if not try

mkluafontdb -f -v

and see of that does the job.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)