Problems regarding execution through luatex (faulty 1.17.1 ?) -- impossible to set version number ?
arthurnardy opened this issue · comments
Good morning,
Documentation generation of our project went broken during christmas holidays.
No source code on our side was modified, neither was access right of the executer. But MiKTeX version went up (23.10.12 => 23.12) and included a new luatex version (1.17.0 => 1.17.1).
The error is the following :
This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.17.1 (MiKTeX 23.12)
restricted system commands enabled.
LaTeX2e <2023-11-01>
L3 programming layer <2024-01-04>
NotSpecified: (:) [], RemoteException
lualatex: file not writable for security reasons: C:/Program Files/MiKTeX//m_t_x_t_e_s_t.tmpluaotfload | load : FATAL ERROR
luaotfload | load : × Failed to load "fontloader" module "basics-gen".
luaotfload | load : × Error message:
luaotfload | load : × "...m Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-init.lua:301: system : no writeable cache path, quiting".stack traceback:
...rogram Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload.lua:200: in local 'load_fontloader_module'
...m Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-init.lua:303: in upvalue 'init_main'
...m Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-init.lua:590: in function 'luaotfload-init.lua'
...rogram Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload.lua:322: in field 'main'
[\directlua]:1: in main chunk...m Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-init.lua:301: system : no wr
iteable cache path, quiting
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
...m Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-init.lua:301: in function '
os.exit'
...rogram Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload.lua:203: in local 'loa
d_fontloader_module'
...m Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-init.lua:303: in upvalue 'i
nit_main'
...m Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-init.lua:590: in function '
luaotfload-init.lua'
...rogram Files/MiKTeX/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload.lua:322: in field 'mai
n'
[\directlua]:1: in main chunk.
...ring \def\string \encodingdefault{OT1}')end }
\let \f@encoding \encoding...
But also :
Missing character: There is no a (U+0061) in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no g (U+0067) in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no e (U+0065) in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no b (U+0062) in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no o (U+006F) in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no o (U+006F) in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no s (U+0073) in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no t (U+0074) in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no e (U+0065) in font nullfont!
etc
What I understand is : luatex is not able anymore to generate or access a database of font to be used in what is printed out and is therefore not able anymore to proceed further.
Some refresh commands I identified online did not help :
miktex --admin --enable-installer --verbose fndb refresh
luaotfload-tool.exe --update --force --verbose
initexmf --report
ReportDate: 2024-01-10 11:25:53
CurrentVersion: 23.12
SetupDate: 2024-01-09 17:18:00
SetupVersion: 23.12
Configuration: Regular
GitInfo: 853af38 / 2023-12-27 10:40:32
OS: Windows 10.0.19045
SharedSetup: yes
LinkTargetDirectory: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64
PathOkay: yes
LastUpdateCheckAdmin: 2024-01-10 11:19:59
LastUpdateAdmin: not yet
LastUpdateDbAdmin: 2024-01-10 11:19:59
SystemAdmin: yes
RootPrivileges: yes
AdminMode: no
Root0: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
Root1: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX
UserInstall: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
UserConfig: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
UserData: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX
I attached all the logs I may have :
- initexmf.log
- lualatex.log
- miktex-hbf2gf.log
- miktex-maketfm.log
- miktex-makemf.log
- miktex.log
- miktex-luahbtex.log
- miktex-makefmt.log
- miktex-fc-cache.log
- luaotfload-tool.log
- miktex-console.log
A quick short-term solution is to have the n-1 version installed, but I did not find the proper way to set a fix version of MiKTeX and its dependencies. Sounds like the miktex update or upgrade methods were designed to always stick to the latest version in any case.
What could I do to unblock the situation ?
Thank you in advance !
- I have read and acknowledged this HOWTO article:
Submitting a MiKTeX problem report
Thank you for your answer, sadly I do not see the point in this "user-mode" solution.
We MUST execute this workflow as administrator in a powershell on the machine we are targeting. We are not given any choice here.
Despite this "running with elevated privileges" red flag we have ever seen, everything was just going fine. How the fact we use a shared installation and execute our workflow as admin mode has to do with the error ?
Furthermore, for the sake of investigation, we did another miktex install on another computer without shared installation and being only in a local directory with a random personna, and the same error pops up, with the same log. The only thing changing are the relative paths
lualatex:` file not writable for security reasons: C:/Users/%user%/MiKTeX/m_t_x_t_e_s_t.tmp
Is there any solution to set the miktex distribution to version n-1 (23.10.12) ? If rolling back from 1 version does not solve the issue, at least it gives us further hints on where the problem may lie.
this has been fixed