Bug#365583: Font problem

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> wrote:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> 
>> try
>> 
>> dpkg-reconfigure -plow tex-common
>> 
>> It will ask you questions about directory permissions, please try to
>> read and understand them and tell us whether this helps.  If it doesn't,
>> you didn't understand the text, which probably means that it hasn't been
>> written or translated properly.  So we should make the text more clear.
>> 
>> Regards, Frank
>
> I choose to have the permissions managed by debconf, and give the font
> cache to the "users" group.
> I am already a member of that group, but I still get the error.

That points to a real bug in the package.  Please send us the output of

ls -al /var/cache/fonts/
ls -al /var/cache/fonts/tfm/
grep users /etc/group

> Then I tried not to have the permissions managed by debconf instead, but
> the error doesn't go away with that setting either.

This is not surprising, since "don't manage by debconf" means that the
maintainer scripts will simply ignore the permissions and leave them as
they are.  If you install freshly, this leads to the permissions as in
the *.deb archive, but now it just doesn't change anything.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)