The oldstyle figures of garamondx don't work

Question

I can't compile the following code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{garamondx}
\usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign}
\useosf

\begin{document}
1234567890
\end{document}

(Well, Emacs actually says it has successfully compiled 0 pages. He's optimist.) I've just upgraded both texlive and the typefaces. Does it compile for you?

the emacs message isn't so useful, what does the tex log for that document look like? garamondx isn't in texlive so I don't have it installed for example. — David Carlisle, Mar 24 '17 at 08:58
@DavidCarlisle Yes sorry, I forgot to add it. It says !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file zgmosfnums.enc): cannot open encoding file for reading ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! — Arch Stanton, Mar 24 '17 at 09:19
I updated the fonts through getnonfreefonts yesterday, since I saw there was an update available for garamondx. Can it be the cause? I didn't try that package before, so I can't say for sure. — Arch Stanton, Mar 24 '17 at 09:42
I can't test now, but imho there are two possible error causes: the new font setup has an error (a missing file or a faulty map entry) or everything is correct but you need to run updmap-sys or updmap (depending on your system, don't run updmap unless you understand the consequence) to update your local map files. — Ulrike Fischer, Mar 24 '17 at 13:17
@UlrikeFischer I've read the manual and I haven't seen any dangerous consequence in running updmap. Can you explain or give a link? — Arch Stanton, Mar 24 '17 at 15:52
I think I've found one. Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts? — Arch Stanton, Mar 24 '17 at 16:09
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the issue was due to duplicate installation of the software — egreg, Mar 24 '17 at 22:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

My fault, I installed the updates with getnonfreefonts instead of getnonfreefonts-sys. When I installed TL2016 I followed cfr's advice and created a dedicated user and home. I don't know whether it had any influence on this issue.

In order to solve this problem I had to remove the files created by getnonfreefonts (the non-sys version; see Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts?) and run getnonfreefonts-sys -a.

[Edit] I also had to run getnonfreefonts-sys -r to get all typefaces to work properly after that.

Many thanks to Ulrike Fischer who lighted my PATH to the solution.

The oldstyle figures of garamondx don't work

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