Bug#176526: tetex-bin: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mktexnam does not set PATH correctly, additional analysis

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Walter Tautz <wtautz@cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> I believe that mktexnam is used in the creation of tfm files, so if you move
> these aside for a moment then I believe it should be possible to generate
> the problem. I just reconfirmed this problem with some elaborate files
> of mine, otherwise I'd send it to you....
>
> Font metrics written on ecbl1000.tfm.
> Output written on ecbl1000.600gf (256 characters, 50072 bytes).
> Transcript written on ecbl1000.log.
> mktextfm: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/ecbl1000.tfm: successfully generated.
> cp: cannot create regular file `FAKE ACCESS COMMAND\n/var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec/pk3915.tmp': No such file or
> directory
> kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecbl0700
> mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode;
> input ecbl0700
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.4.5)
>
> So mktexnam outputs a name that tells the program to copy a pk file so an
> appropriately name pk file?

Could send me a (hopefully small) tex file that uses this font, and tell
me exactly which files I need to move away?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie