It seems that the problem is even worse: $ luatex -ini -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex ~/.texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/luatex.ini This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.77.0-2013051114 (rev 4635) (INITEX) ! I can't find file `/home/ismo/.texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/luatex .ini'. <*> ...ve/2013/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/luatex.ini
Please type another input file name: Giving LuaTeX an absolute path is not helping. I also tried $ touch a.tex $ luatex -ini a.tex It also does not find the file a.tex.
