Repeated Author First Name BibLaTex Chicago

Question

After updating to 2016 TexLive (Mac) from 2015 TeXLive (Mac), the BibLaTeX Chicago package (biblatex-chicago), when compiled with LuaLaTeX, repeats the author first name 3 times in the same entry in the bibliography. If I switch back to 2015 TeXLive (Mac), author first names display correctly.

Below is an MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{utced.bib}

@BOOK{henson_life_1849,
  title = {The Life of Josiah Henson},
  publisher = {Arthur D. Phelps},
  year = {1849},
  author = {Henson, Josiah},
  date = {1849},
  location = {Boston},
  shorttitle = {The Life of Josiah Henson}
}

@BOOK{stowe_key_1853,
  title = {A Key to \textup{Uncle Tom's Cabin}: Presenting the Original
Facts and Documents},
   publisher = {Boston: John P. Jewett \& Co.; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor \&
Worthington},
  year = {1853},
  author = {Stowe, Harriet Beecher},
  date = {1853},
  pagetotal = {280},
  shorttitle = {A Key to \textup{Uncle Tom's Cabin}}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\usepackage[notes,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{utced.bib}


\begin{document}
\title{Chicago Citation Style with BibLaTeX}
\author{Wesley Raabe}
\maketitle

\section{Sample}

found him true and square\footnote{The \textit{Life of Josiah Henson} (1849), a slave narrative, is cited by Stowe as one of the models for Shelby's enslaved man Tom. (\cite[26]{stowe_key_1853};  \cite[13]{henson_life_1849}).} in everything."

\pagebreak
\printbibliography
\end{document}

I believe the problem is related to matters described in these two questions. Impossible to build document with biblatex-chicago

But I have updated. When I try to compile in TeXLive 2016 (Mac), all packages updated, I have to add the following workaround to make it compile:

\makeatletter
\def\cms@choose{cms}
\makeatother

But it issues the following error messages:

Undefined control sequence. \abx@macro@name:given-family ...}{#2#3#1}\if empty
        {#2}{}
{\mkbibnamegiven {#2...

I can force it to ignore all error messages, but then the name problem happens, as below.

I delete the AUX files between compile attempts. Also, tlmgr info says biblatex-chicago is on version cat-date: 2016-06-10 17:15:51 +0200, the latest, so I'm not sure what to do.

Welcome to TeX.SE! When did you most recently update MacTeX2016? The reason I ask is that I can't replicate the issue you are encountering on a fully updated MacTeX system. I have biblatex-chicago 2016/06/01 v 3.4 and biblatex 2016/12/05 v3.7. Version of biber: 2.7. — Mico, Feb 04 '17 at 02:03
I downloaded MacTeX2016 on January 19, 2017 and updated packages 3 or 4 days later. — English Prof WRaabe, Feb 04 '17 at 02:05
biblatex 2016-12-06 v. 3.7 biber 2016-09-08 v. 2.6 and biblatex chicago 2016-06-10 not sure about version, does not display on tlmgr info biblatex-chicago Maybe it's the Biber version? — English Prof WRaabe, Feb 04 '17 at 02:11
Not sure. In TeXLive utility, I assume I'd just do Reinstall selected packages. — English Prof WRaabe, Feb 04 '17 at 02:17
Reinstall selected packages does not work. Still version 2.6. tlmgr update --list does not show biber as an updatable package. — English Prof WRaabe, Feb 04 '17 at 02:40
Can you open a command window and type sudo tlmgr update --self --all? — Mico, Feb 04 '17 at 03:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 08 '17 at 22:56

The immediate problem, repeated name, appears to have been repaired by one of the following steps (not sure which)

Removing old installations, 2009-2014, advised by Mico.
Running FixLink.pkg,
Removing tex-mf local, which had tex/latex/biblatex-contrib (Apr. 2016) and tex/latex/bibtex (Dec. 2014).

However, Biber still shows two versions, 2.6 on tlmgr info but 2.7 on biber-v. A configuration conflict from old installations appears to be the likely cause.

Unsure if related, but packages fontenc, inputenc and lmodern (sample MWE) not compatible with LuaLaTeX. Use fontspec instead.

Repeated Author First Name BibLaTex Chicago

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