! Font \TU/lmr/m/n/10=[lmroman10-regular]:+tlig; at 10pt not loadable

Question

I'm on Windows (seems like everyone else is using *nix + latex, so I thought it's worth pointing out).

When I run this command in the command prompt:

lualatex.exe --halt-on-error --interaction=nonstopmode -output-directory=C:\ C:\Users\uuu\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp9DE6.tex

The error I get is:

! Font \TU/lmr/m/n/10=[lmroman10-regular]:+tlig; at 10pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.
<to be read again>
relax
l.105 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont

 372 words of node memory still in use:
   2 hlist, 1 rule, 1 dir, 4 glue, 47 glue_spec, 2 if_stack, 2 write, 1 pdf_col
orstack nodes
   avail lists: 2:13,3:3,5:2,7:2,8:1,9:2
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on tmp9DE6.log.

When I try to generate pdf file using TeXworks tool however, it's being generated properly. The question is - which command line options is it using to not have the same problem as cmd has? Or more general - what to do to make this problem go away?

EDIT:

Huh, didn't notice this earlier because of the amount of output, but one of the first things console is showing after running the above command, is:

module 'luaotfload-main' not found

Maybe that's the real problem? But what is the reason for it?

you should have that file in texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-main.lua try updating your system to install luaotfload — David Carlisle, Jul 06 '17 at 13:35
Simply look. You are in the happy situation that you have a failing and a working compilation. So you can compare both and search for differences. — Ulrike Fischer, Jul 06 '17 at 13:40
The problem is that this lua script is where it's supposed to be :( — Marek M., Jul 06 '17 at 13:41
save the log file you get when you call via texworks and the log file you get if you call directly and compare line by line and see where they start using different files (or different version of latex) — David Carlisle, Jul 06 '17 at 13:42
Perhaps you have two texsystems - my texlive install dir contains the 2016 folder inside. I was using lualatex from C:\texlive\bin\win32 but I should be using the one installed in C:\texlive\2016\bin\win32 — Marek M., Jul 06 '17 at 14:03
Radon Rosborough's sudo apt-get install fonts-lmodern in question 129799 was the solution (for me). — Michael, Feb 01 '18 at 20:48

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '17 at 07:37

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In case someone else comes across this problem, the solution is to install luaotfload:

sudo tlmgr install luaotfload

answered Nov 01 '17 at 07:37

lf_araujo

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I needed luaotfload-tool --update in addition to that. – Nico Schlömer Jul 13 '18 at 17:40
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If using Tex Live in Debian, this installs loaotfload-main, and fixes the problem: sudo apt-get install texlive-luatex. And this is needed for the lualatex command: sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base. – pts Jan 10 '19 at 14:51
@pts It works perfectly! – Giovanni Cerretani Jan 10 '19 at 21:31
FINALLY! I spent days trying to figure out the font crap. Everything about package fontspec said "need lualatex" which I had. Installing texlive-luatex finally made my fonts work. This is on Debian testing, Oct 2022. – Benny Jobigan Oct 27 '22 at 12:37

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '23 at 11:40

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I solved this problem by explicitly installing the texlive-luatex package.

On Arch Linux, the command for this installation would be

sudo pacman -S texlive-luatex

answered Jul 10 '23 at 11:40

Mirko

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In my case, it was not the solution. – Oromion Jul 22 '23 at 22:01
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The solution was. – Oromion Jul 22 '23 at 23:16
I had that problem on Debian. Package name is the same: sudo apt install texlive-luatex – Stewart Aug 09 '23 at 14:07
(Thanks !) Indeed, in archlinux the texlive package seems to have been recently splitted, and you may have other error because of missing packages. – hl037_ Oct 17 '23 at 08:02

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