Bug#170969: tetex-bin: Cannot create new fonts

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>
Subject: Bug#170969: tetex-bin: Cannot create new fonts
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:47:15 +0000

> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:28:39PM +0100, Gianluca Della Vedova wrote:
> > > Anyway, what output do you get from the following?
> > > 
> > > kpsewhich --expand-var='$VARTEXFONTS'
> > 
> > /var/cache/fonts
> 
> OK, now I'm totally bemused.  How did this directory ever lose its
> global write and sticky bit permissions?
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?

I got no idea but, Gianluca, I would like to know;

From: Gianluca Della Vedova <gianluca.dellavedova@unimib.it>
Subject: Bug#170969: tetex-bin: Cannot create new fonts
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:17:54 +0100

> 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/

is this /var/cache/fonts/pk was generated automatically
or created by you manually?

Now you could get tetex-bin 1.0.7+20021025-4, perhaps.  
What happened if you upgraded tetex-bin?  Is there still 
the problem?

Best regards,			2002/12/6

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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