ConTeXt Minimals/FAQ

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[edit] Blocked Firewall port

rsync: failed to connect to contextgarden.net: Connection timed out (116)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122)
[receiver=3.0.2]

You are most probably behind a firewall. Make sure that port 873 is open. If you cannot make any changes yourself and if your admin objects, you probably won't be able to use rsync for the distribution.

[edit] Proxy settings

If your firewall uses a proxy server, you need to tell the details to rsync. One is to set RSYNC_PROXY variable in the terminal or your startup script (.bashrc or the corresponding file for your shell). Replace username, password, proxyhost and proxyport with the correct information.

 export RSYNC_PROXY=username:password@proxyhost:proxyport

Sometimes port 873 is blocked. In this case, you can use ssh port tunneling and the program nc (netcat) to redirect an open port.

[edit] Cygwin permission problems on Windows

texlua.exe: "Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)"

One need to have a setting

set cygwin=NONTSEC

but it should have been set automatically by mtx-update.lua. If you experience this problem, please report.