Thank you, Ulrike for you explanation!!!
After discovering the problematic font, it took me still some time to
figure out, how to add it to the black list. So just for the archives,
here is what I needed to figure out:
After running "mkluatexfontdb -v" as adviced I found out at which font
mkluatexfontdb crashed. So I needed to blacklist the font in question.
For this purpose the luaotfload manual advised me to create a
otfl-blacklist.cnf file and put it somewhere where "kpse" (whatever this
is?) can find it. I first thought: Pehaps I should put the file in the
same directory as mkluatexfontdb.exe. But then I found out that there
is already an otfl-blacklist.cnf file in my MiKTeX Windows installation
in the "tex/luatex/luaotfload" subdirectory. It had already some
blacklisted fonts in it. So I appended the fontname including the file
extension to it. However, mkluatexfontdb still tried to process the
font in question. After some laborious experiemnts I discovered the
reason of it: The fontnames in the blacklist need to be normalized to
lower-case. And I also discovered that, if I use complete paths, the
back-slashes needs to be normalized to forward-slashes. After adding the
fontname (including its file extension) in lower-case to
otfl-blacklist.cnf, building the fontname database finally worked!
Dieter Köhler
Am 06.05.2012 15:55, schrieb Ulrike Fischer:
Am Sat, 5 May 2012 23:13:41 +0200 schrieb Dieter Köhler:
Hi all,
When I use the \setmainfont{} command from the fontspec package,
lualatex crashes while attempting to build a font name database.
The last lines from the log are:
luaotfload | Font names database not found, generating new one.
This can take several minutes; please be patient.
luaotfload | Updating the font names database:
luaotfload | Scanning TEXMF and OS fonts...
A few seconds after this output lualatex.exe crashes. These are the
details from the crash report:
I am using an up-to-date MiKTeX installation on Windows Vista. MiKTeX is
installed in the "Program Files" directory. And I am running lualatex as
user, not an admin.
Run on a command line
mkluatexfontdb -v
If it stops/crashes at a font, try if it works if you add this font
to the blacklist. See the documentation of luaotfload for details.
