Bug 1913245

Summary:	texlive-context does not work on Silverblue (/home symlink issue)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mildred <mildred-bug.redhat>
Component:	texlive-base	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <spotrh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	33	CC:	caznaranl, spotrh, than
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Fixed In Version:	texlive-base-20200327-20.fc33 texlive-base-20200327-21.fc32	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Description Mildred 2021-01-06 11:17:02 UTC

Description of problem:

The problem is also described here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/577769/context-fails-to-work-on-fedora-silvervlue-fatal-format-file-error-im-stymie/577770

With no texlive cache at all, context does not work and shown an error "unable to change to format path '/home/mildred/.cache/texlive/luatex-cache/context/c8ffba5311d077c16376bba44d5fa793/formats/luatex'" which is caused by /home being a symlink, see: https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2020/099479.html


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

- from texlive-context-20200327-19.fc33

How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. rm -rf ~/.cache/texlive
2. Run context on a file

Actual results:

no generated file


Expected results:

file is generated, and if there is an error, it should return with an error code and be more explicit

Workaround:

Run with HOME=/var/home/yourlogin

Additional info:

Could be fixed easily in `/usr/bin/context`:

--- /usr/bin/context	2020-12-17 22:38:27.000000000 +0100
+++ context.new	2021-01-06 12:16:20.281648220 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/sh
 export TEXMF=/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist;
 export TEXMFCNF=/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c;
-export TEXMFCACHE=$HOME/.cache/texlive;
+export TEXMFCACHE=$(realpath $HOME/.cache/texlive);
 /usr/bin/mtxrun --script context "$@"

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2021-01-26 18:08:34 UTC

FEDORA-2021-cf8600300a has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-cf8600300a

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2021-01-26 18:08:34 UTC

FEDORA-2021-ea8190b519 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 32. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-ea8190b519

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2021-01-27 01:37:18 UTC

FEDORA-2021-cf8600300a has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-cf8600300a`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-cf8600300a

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2021-01-27 01:51:32 UTC

FEDORA-2021-ea8190b519 has been pushed to the Fedora 32 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-ea8190b519`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-ea8190b519

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2021-01-31 01:24:34 UTC

FEDORA-2021-cf8600300a has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2021-02-03 01:31:21 UTC

FEDORA-2021-969de5378f has been pushed to the Fedora 32 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-969de5378f`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-969de5378f

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2021-02-11 01:52:45 UTC

FEDORA-2021-969de5378f has been pushed to the Fedora 32 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.