<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 22, 2024, at 09:27, John Collins <jcc8@psu.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>On 2/22/24 8:03 AM, Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 22, 2024, at 6:00 AM, Alain Matthes via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:<br><br>I have installed mactex 2024 pretest but I have a problem.<br><br>I tried it with a simple document. (compilation with lualatex.<br><br>...<br><br>and I get a FATAL error :<br><br>....<br>luaotfload | load : × "...024/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-i<br>nit.lua:301: system : no writeable cache path, quiting"....024/texmf-dist/tex/lu<br>atex/luaotfload/luaotfload-init.lua:301: system : no writeable cache path, quiti<br>ng<br>stack traceback:<br>[C]: in function 'error'<br>———————————————<br></blockquote><br>Did you do an update after the install? <br></blockquote>><br><blockquote type="cite">...<br>Maybe try to create ~/Library/texlive/2024/texmf-var and try again. Note that ~/Library is the library folder in you HOME folder, NOT /Library which is the Libreary folder at the root of your HD/SSD. Also note that ~/Library/texlive may already be created from a previous year's distribution.<br></blockquote><br>The solution is definitely to create the directory ~/Library/texlive/2024/texmf-var. This directory is needed for lualatex for it to write its font cache files.<br><br>In previous years' versions of TeXLive, the corresponding directory was created automatically when lualatex is run. But in TeXLive 2024, there's a bug such that the directory isn't automatically created, so you have to create it manually. This is still true after the latest updates, done just before I sent this e-mail.<br></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Do you own the TeXLive directory, or is it owned by root:wheel? I own mine and the cache was created in $TEXMFSYSVAR even before the update</div><div><br></div><div>—Ettore</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Osaka"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Ettore Aldrovandi</span></font><div><font face="Osaka"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Department of Mathematics</span></font></div><div><font face="Osaka"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Florida State University</span></font></div><div><font face="Osaka"><span style="font-size: 12px;">https://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov</span></font></div><div><font face="Osaka"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div><br></body></html>