Re: Unable to find file "lily.scm" in load path

[David Kastrup]

Nick Payne <address@hidden> writes:

> I was using Lilypond with no problems yesterday (2.15.20 on Ubuntu
> 10.04 amd64). I noticed 2.15.21 on lilypond.org this morning, so I
> downloaded the Linux 64 version, ran uninstall-lilypond, and installed
> 2.15.21. On any attempt to run Lilypond I got:
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.15.21
> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> ERROR: Unable to find file "lily.scm" in load path
>
> I rebooted, ran uninstall-lilypond again and reinstalled 2.15.20 from
> the download I still had from my initial install of 2.15.20, but got
> exactly the same error message from 2.15.20, so I ran lilypond inside
> strace. This seems to be the relevant portion of the strace log file - 
> the last couple of dozen lines:
>
> stat("/home/nick/lilypond/scm/lily.scm", 0x7fffc5d00d00) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/nick/lilypond/lily.scm", 0x7fffc5d00d00) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
> stat("/usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/../share/guile/1.8/lily.scm",
> 0x7fffc5d00d00) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

> lily.scm is in /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm,
> which is where I would expect it to be. Any suggestions on how to fix
> this problem?

Sure you don't have an executable or even a dead symbolic link in
/home/nick/lilypond or /home/nick/bin or so?

-- 
David Kastrup