Bug or configuration error?

[Lorraine Dully <ldully@ireland.com>]

Hey all,
	I've used LaTeX for several years on Debian GNU/Linux Woody on PA-RISC,
Sparc, IA-32 and PPC.  I'm having a problem with it on Sarge PPC and I'm
not sure if it's a bug or an installation problem.
	I did the usual "apt-get install tetex tetex-extra" to get all the AMS
funkyness.  However, I seem to be having a strange font problem.  Using
LaTeX to generate dvi files is no problem but converting them to PDF or
using PDFLaTeX to compile directly from tex to PDF yields problems.
	Converting from DVI to PDF renders a file of blank pages (apart from
\includegraphics and xfigs that are included).  Here is the output of
the dvipdf command

lori@debian:~/College work/HASE report$ dvipdf prereport.dvi
prereport.pdf
dvips: Font cmr17 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.
dvips: Font cmr12 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Font cmbx12 at 16587 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Font cmbx10 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Font cmr10 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Font cmbx12 at 13827 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Font cmbx12 at 9600 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Font cmti10 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Font cmsy10 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Font cmbx12 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.

using pdflatex directly I seem to get a normal session.  Below is the
output of the end of the pass regarding fonts.  Unfortunately the
resulting fonts "don't look right (tm)" and "ff" or "fi" ligatures are
replaced with a square box.
	A screenshot of this is available at
http://www.minds.may.ie/~balor/gpdf.png
a full list of installed packages is available from 
http://www.minds.may.ie/~balor/pkgs.list
Please email me if you need any more information.
 
 </var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmbx12.600pk>
</var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfou
r/public/cm/cmsy10.600pk>
</var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmti10.600pk> <
/var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmbx12.720pk>
</var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/
public/cm/cmbx12.1037pk>
</var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmr10.600pk> </v
ar/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmbx10.600pk>
</var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/pu
blic/cm/cmbx12.1244pk>
</var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmr12.600pk> </var
/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmr17.600pk>
Output written on prereport.pdf (5 pages, 101893 bytes).

Thanks,
Lorraine Dully