Bug#170969: tetex-bin: Cannot create new fonts
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20021025-3
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
After upgrading to latest (sid) tetex version, I am not able to create
the needed fonts. For example using xdvi the results are below.
I conjecture that the problem is related to the permission of
/var/cache/fonts
bash-2.05b$ xdvi textbook_bioinformatics.dvi
xdvi: Warning: unable to find xdvi.cfg
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfzzz --bdpi 1200 --mag 1+0/1200
--dpi 1200 eusm8
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfzzz/ams':
Permission denied
kpsestat: /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfzzz/ams/..: No such file or directory
chmod: too few arguments
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfzzz/ams/euler':
No such file or directory
kpsestat: /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfzzz/ams/euler/..: No such file or
directory
chmod: too few arguments
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
mktexpk: mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfzzz/ams/euler failed.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
xdvi: Can't find font eusm8; using Type1 version of cmr10 instead.
bash-2.05b$ ls -lap /var/cache/fonts/
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 96 2002-11-27 19:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 336 2002-11-15 17:04 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 2002-11-27 19:06 ls-R
drwxr-xr-t 3 root root 72 2002-11-27 19:06 pk/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux scorpio 2.4.19-686 #1 Thu Aug 8 21:30:09 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.16 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.0.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.9 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-19 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libkpathsea3 1.0.7+20021025-3 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5-6 PNG library - runtime
ii libwww0 5.4.0-5 The W3C WWW library
ii libxaw7 4.2.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii perl-tk 1:800.024-1.1 Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii t1lib1 1.3.1-1 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20021025-1 basic teTeX library files
ii xlibs 4.2.1-4 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-8 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
* tetex-bin/userperm: true
* tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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