Bug#356960: lyx font errors

["Jeremiah Savage" <jeremiahsavage@hotmail.com>]

> From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
> To: "Jeremiah Savage" <jeremiahsavage@hotmail.com>
> CC: 356960@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#356960: lyx font errors
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:37:28 +0100
>
> "Jeremiah Savage" <jeremiahsavage@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >># debconf-show tex-common
> >># ls -al /var/cache/fonts/
> >
> >      # debconf-show tex-common
> >      * tex-common/managecache: true
> >        tex-common/groupname: users
> >        tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
> >        tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
> >        tex-common/cnf_name:
> >
> >      # ls -al /var/cache/fonts/
> >      total 24
> >      drwxrwsr-t  5 root users 4096 2006-01-25 23:01 .
> >      drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  4096 2006-02-01 21:50 ..
> >      -rw-rw-r--  1 root users 1897 2006-03-15 06:28 ls-R
> >      drwxrwsr-t  4 root users 4096 2006-02-09 20:33 pk
> >      drwxrwsr-t  3 root users 4096 2006-02-08 13:50 source
> >      drwxrwsr-t  3 root users 4096 2006-02-08 13:50 tfm
>
> Well, the user who runs lyx probably isn't member of the group "users",
> is he?

The lyx user account was not a member of "users"
As Ralf suggested, I added the account to the "users" group, and now Lyx is 
able to properly view dvi, ps and pdf files.

Thanks,
Jeremiah

> >>Did you read /usr/share/doc/tex-common/README.Debian?
> >
> > I just did, now. So, I ran
> >      # dpkg-reconfigure -plow tex-common
> > and now
> >      # debconf-show tex-common
> >      * tex-common/managecache: true
> >      * tex-common/groupname: users
>
> We should probably make clear in the README that in the default setup,
> nobody is member of that group...
>
> Regards, Frank
> --
> Frank Küster
> Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. 
> Zürich
> Debian Developer (teTeX)