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bug #52891: TeXmacs does not start with a weird error message

Submitter:  Victor Porton <porton>
Submitted:  Mon 15 Jan 2018 01:04:28 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Item Group:  Error Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  vdhoeven
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None Release: 
Fixed Release:  1.99.12 Fixed Release: 
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Sat 19 Oct 2019 12:34:04 AM UTC, comment #8: 

Hi Victor,

I don't know if you still experience this bug, but it probably is indeed related with the way you set things up.  I recently tested TeXmacs on some machine at another university and I had to do a 'rehash' after changing the PATH before being able to use TeXmacs.

So please carefully proceed as follows:
  - Redefine the TEXMACS_PATH and PATH using export or setenv.
  - I prefer that you do PATH=[path-to-texmacs]:$PATH
    to be sure that the target version of TeXmacs has priority.
  - Do a 'hash' or 'rehash' before launching TeXmacs
    if necessary.

For the moment, I close the bug.
Please re-open it if necessary, while providing more details.

Best wishes, --Joris

Joris van der Hoeven <vdhoeven>
Group administrator
Wed 17 Jan 2018 11:03:22 PM UTC, comment #7: 

OK, I learned something from your bug :-) However, given that the issue does not occur on my system (ubuntu 16.04), I'm afraid I can't help sorting it out. Let us know if you come to understand the origin of the problem in your setup.

Philippe Joyez <pjoyez>
Group Member
Wed 17 Jan 2018 07:39:02 PM UTC, comment #6: 

When a variable assignment is before the command (not on a separate line) sh or bash automatically export the variable for this command (not for the following lines of sh input).

Example:

COLOR=full ls

In this example the shell variable COLOR is exported while running the command ls.

So the error is in something other.

Victor Porton <porton>
Wed 17 Jan 2018 07:28:16 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Oh, I see. It wasn't clear that was input. Anyway, I still think I have a point since the instructions are to :

export PATH=...

see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1158091/defining-a-variable-with-or-without-export

Philippe Joyez <pjoyez>
Group Member
Wed 17 Jan 2018 06:27:42 PM UTC, comment #4: 

The following is NOT what it prints, but it is what I type in the Bash command line:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/stow/TeXmacs-1.99.6-10945-i386-pc-linux-gnu/bin TEXMACS_PATH=/usr/local/bin/TeXmacs-1.99.6-10945-i386-pc-linux-gnu strace texmacs.bin

Victor Porton <porton>
Wed 17 Jan 2018 06:21:13 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Yes I saw, and this is precisely why I suspect something is wrong with the PATH: I find it strange that it prints PATH=$PATH:... where $PATH has not been expanded.

Philippe Joyez <pjoyez>
Group Member
Wed 17 Jan 2018 03:35:28 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Philippe, you see that I do have PATH setting in my bug report.

Victor Porton <porton>
Wed 17 Jan 2018 07:50:49 AM UTC, comment #1: 

It looks like a misconfiguration of the PATH so that the wrapper script does not find the executable. Maybe there was an error while manually setting up the PATH? This installation procedure is not very user-friendly...

If you cannot find how to correct for this you can install a deb for debian 9 from this location:

https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:slowphil:texmacs-devel&package=texmacs

I've had reports it works.

Philippe Joyez <pjoyez>
Group Member
Mon 15 Jan 2018 01:04:28 AM UTC, original submission:  

I have installed http://www.texmacs.org/Download/ftp/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.6-B.tar.gz into /usr/local/stow/TeXmacs-1.99.6-10945-i386-pc-linux-gnu

Then I try to run TeXmacs (under strace to make the error more clear):

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/stow/TeXmacs-1.99.6-10945-i386-pc-linux-gnu/bin TEXMACS_PATH=/usr/local/bin/TeXmacs-1.99.6-10945-i386-pc-linux-gnu strace texmacs.bin
execve("/usr/local/stow/TeXmacs-1.99.6-10945-i386-pc-linux-gnu/bin/texmacs.bin", ["texmacs.bin"], 0x7ffe7e4bc630 /* 43 vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
fstat(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
write(2, "strace: exec: No such file or di"..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory
) = 40
getpid()                                = 7105
exit_group(1)                           = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++

No idea why the above nonsense happen. Please make TeXmacs work again.

It happens on Debian 9.

Victor Porton <porton>

 

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