Bug#365583: Font problem

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

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

>> sh -x /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/ 2> mktexdir.log
[...]
> + mkdir ././var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen
> mkdir: kann Verzeichnis â.�././var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappenâ.� nicht anlegen: Keine Berechtigung
> + errstatus=1

So it tries to create exactly the directory that it should, but is not
allowed.

You said that you are member of the users group - have you been that
before this problem, or have you only added the user today?  You need to
log out and in again to make this change effective.

So the problem can probably be reproduced simply by trying to create the
directory manually:

phillip@notebook2:~$ mkdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen

Please log out an in again (or simply log in on a text console for
testing).  After that, it definitely should work - if not, what's the
output of "groups"?

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