Bug#176526: tetex-bin: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mktexnam does not set PATH correctly
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-1] Frank Küster wrote:
> Dear Walter,
>
> over a year ago you reported bug
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=176526 to the Debian
> Bugtracking system. One other maintainer, Atsuhito, had doubts that your
> analysis was correct. You advised:
>
> ,----
> | my suggesition is
> | that you temporarily create a fake access command in your PATH before the
> | proper one at /usr/bin/access and see if
> | mktexnam invokes this fake commmand prior to invoking /usr/bin/access which
> | it's suppose to....
> `----
>
> I tried to do this, but I cannot reproduce the bug. Could it be that it
> depends on which fonts are used? It would be great if you could provide
> a small example latex document that shows the error. This is what I did:
>
> frank@alhambra:~/latex/test/debian-tetex$ cat `which access`
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echo "nix da"
> exit 1
> frank@alhambra:~/latex/test/debian-tetex$ dvips 236967-marvosym.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2004.03.11:1731' -> 236967-marvosym.ps
> <texc.pro><f7b6d320.enc><bbad153f.enc><texps.pro>. <cmsy10.pfb><cmr10.pfb>[1]
> frank@alhambra:~/latex/test/debian-tetex$
>
> Regards, Frank
Yes, it would seem that one has to temporarily remove some of the standard fonts
to force mktexnam script to run. I believe it's used to generated fonts. Try
moving aside the whole pk tree for a moment WITHOUT running mktexlsr and such
that tex is forced to create the fonts....
unfortunately I can't generated the error myself at the moment. Perhaps using a
very usual font would get it to work.
>
> --
> Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
> Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
>
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