Bug#267896: tetex-bin: mktextfm fails creating EC fonts

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reassign 267896 tetex-base
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On 25.08.04 Kai Weber (kai.weber@glorybox.de) wrote:

Hi,

> I had to reinstall my system and now latex fails when creating a
> new font. A relevant mktextfm call from missfont.log:
> 
> $ mktextfm ecrm1200
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen': Permission denied
> kpsestat: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/..: No such file or directory
> chmod: too few arguments
> Try `chmod --help' for more information.
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec': No such file or directory
> kpsestat: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/..: No such file or directory
> chmod: too few arguments
> Try `chmod --help' for more information.
> mktextfm: mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec failed.
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  16 root root 4096 Aug 24 22:28 /var/
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 Aug 25 00:28 /var/cache/
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Aug 25 00:28 /var/cache/fonts/
> 
> $ ls -l /var/cache/fonts/
> total 16
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root users  119 Aug 25 00:30 ls-R
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Aug 22 13:56 pk
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Aug 22 13:56 source
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Aug 22 13:56 tfm
> 
Your permission on pk, source and tfm are wrong. Please set them to
1777.
As of tetex-base 2.0.2b-x (why can't I find a changelog entry?) these
dirs are contained with 1777 in tetex-base. For any reason during
install of tetex-base the perms are set back to 755. I guess that is
an dpkg bug (or somewhere else). We should fix the perms in postin of
tetex-base again.

H. 
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