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Build error in sarge (tex issue?)



Suddenly, after upgrading to sarge while creating PS file, I got ....

kpathsea: Running mktextfm  ecrm1095
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/spool/texmf': Permission denied
kpsestat: /var/spool/texmf/..: No such file or directory
chmod: too few arguments
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/spool/texmf/tfm': No such file or directorykpsestat: /var/spool/texmf/tfm/..: No such file or directory
chmod: too few arguments
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/spool/texmf/tfm/jknappen': No such file or
kpsestat: /var/spool/texmf/tfm/jknappen/..: No such file or directory
chmod: too few arguments
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/spool/texmf/tfm/jknappen/ec': No such file
kpsestat: /var/spool/texmf/tfm/jknappen/ec/..: No such file or directory
chmod: too few arguments
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
mktextfm: mktexdir /var/spool/texmf/tfm/jknappen/ec failed.
...

What is wrong with this and how to fix it.

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  tetex-bin      1.0.7+20011202 teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-extra    1.0.2+20011202 extra teTeX library files

I downgraded these to stable version and still breaks.  Anyone
experiencing similar?
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