+++ Olly Betts [04-10-14 04:27 +0100]:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:20:11AM +0200, Stacho Mudrak wrote:
therion: error -- metapost exit code -- 256
This is strange, usually metapost writes something to log file. Do you remember your wrong data arrangement?
If you would like to see (in the future), where the problem is, you can run therion with -d option. Than all temporary files will not be deleted and in the {$TEMP}/thTMPDIR you will find therion metapost file data.mp.
OK, this problem hasn't gone away (we've just been using the box it works on). But looking at it again, if I run therion -d the output from metapost is:
This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mpost.mem fmtutil: format `mpost' not available. I can't find the mem file `mpost.mem'! therion: error -- metapost exit code -- 256
It turns out that the problem box is missing /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem while the other box has it. Both boxes are running debian "unstable", but that file isn't owned by any package (so I presume it is generated by installing one of the tetex packages or something list that).
Digging deeper, the "good" box has tetex-extra installed, but the "bad" box doesn't, and after installing this package, everything works. But the debian therion package depends on tetex-bin but not tetex-extra so it's not automatically installed.
Wookey: I've not filed a Debian bug for this - let me know if you want me to...
Nope - I'll fix that - I need to do an update anyway to have Debian therion include the model viewer.... That's another 10MB on the therion footprint, which is a problem for 'embedded' use, but otherwise simple enough. Well spotted. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/