Hi > After all, feel free to close this bugreport then...
Found the problem. You need to set export LANG=C in the chroot. luatex dies when LANG is unset. I will add LANG=C to the fmtutil calls to make sure that this doesn't happen again. Thanks for your report and insistance! Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13