[Therion] Metapost error 256

[Bill Gee]

Hi Stacho -

As you suspected - Running "mpost data.mp" in the thTMPDIR directory only 
produced messages about missing preload files.

I went to root and ran mktexlsr.  WooHoo!  That fixed the problem!  "mpost 
data.mp" runs to completion, and it also works when run from inside xTherion.

I ran "fmtutil --all" just in case something else was missing.

There is no way to tell how the problem was created.  I installed Therion on 
this computer a couple of months ago, but have not needed to use it until last 
weekend.  I am sure I would have tried compiling a map when I did the 
installation ... but maybe not.

Many thanks for your help!  This is one I would never have figured out on my 
own.

Bill Gee



On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 09:57:57 Stacho Mudrak wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> it looks, your metapost installation is missing format files or there are
> paths not set up correctly.
> 
> Try running mpost data.mp in thTMPDIR folder, but it will probably generate
> missing preload file error too.
> 
> It is really strange, normally plain formats are installed with the TeX.
> May be some reinstallation of metapost would help, otherwise you will have
> to figure out, how to generate formats on Fedora linux.
> 
> I would first try "sudo mktexlsr". This should rescan paths in your tex
> installation.
> 
> Then I would try "sudo fmtutil -all". This should recreate all format files
> again.
> 
> HTH, S.
> 
> On 26 March 2014 00:47, Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net> wrote:
> > Hi Martin -
> > 
> > I ran diff on the data.mp files from working and not-working computers.
> > 
> >  They
> > 
> > are identical, byte for byte.
> > 
> > Regards - Bill Gee
> > 
> > On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 00:09:57 Martin Sluka wrote:
> > > in file data.mp is all what was possible to process up to error.
> > > 
> > > Compare both data.mp files.
> > > 
> > > m.s.
> > > 
> > > 25. 3. 2014 v 20:46, Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net>:
> > > > On
> > > > the machine that fails, the directory contains only five files.  One
> > > > of
> > > > them is data.mp.
> > > 
> > > Martin Sluka - Studio Sluka
> > > 
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> > > 
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