Bug#240231: tetex-bin: mktextfm fails to create font
Il gio, 2004-04-08 alle 15:11, Frank Küster ha scritto:
> Gianluca Della Vedova <gianluca.dellavedova@unimib.it> wrote:
>
> > Il dom, 2004-03-28 alle 11:45, Frank Küster ha scritto:
> >> Gianluca Della Vedova <gianluca.dellavedova@unimib.it> schrieb:
> >
> >> Ah, I looked more closely: The file you sent last consists of two
> >> outputs concatenated. The first one is from a different script, and I
> >> can't see a clear error message in it. After it runs mf-nowin, the
> >> output just stops. Then comes the output of an other call of mktexmf,
> >> and this is now the one shipped with tetex. But it starts with "set -e",
> >> just as before.
> >>
> >> I fear we won't be able to find that bug, as long as you don't find out
> >> which script is really called, and you do set -x, but not set -e in that
> >> one.
> >
> > I believe that the called script is /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.opt
>
> Oh, don't do that! - Well, I confused you, and you did your best to
> confuse me, but eventually didn't manage to.
I am sorry for the confuzion I created. Luckily you have a clear
understanding of the inner workings of metafont (and related programs),
which I don't have.
> It shouldn't fail, because in /var/cache/fonts everybody should have
> write permissions (with sticky bit set). But you say that even for root
> it fails. Please give us the output of
>
> ls -ld /var/
> ls -ld /var/cache/
> ls -ld /var/cache/fonts/
> ls -ld /var/cache/fonts/*
>
$sudo ls -ld /var/cache/fonts/*
Password:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root users 964 2004-04-08 09:35 /var/cache/fonts/ls-R
drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 96 2003-06-07 22:11 /var/cache/fonts/pk
drwxr-xr-t 3 root root 72 2003-02-10 21:08 /var/cache/fonts/source
drwxr-xr-t 3 root root 72 2003-02-10 21:08 /var/cache/fonts/tfm
03:21 gio apr 08 dellaved@scorpio ~/temp
$sudo ls -ld /var/cache/fonts/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 144 2003-09-02 09:02 /var/cache/fonts/
03:21 gio apr 08 dellaved@scorpio ~/temp
$sudo ls -ld /var/cache/
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 384 2003-10-17 08:10 /var/cache/
03:21 gio apr 08 dellaved@scorpio ~/temp
$sudo ls -ld /var/
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 384 2004-03-31 09:59 /var/
$sudo ls -ld /var/cache/fonts/source/jknappen/ec
drwxr-xr-t 2 root root 304 2004-03-14 14:54 /var/cache/fonts/source/jknappen/ec
Thanks again for your efforts.
--
Gianluca Della Vedova
Dip. Statistica, Univ. Milano-Bicocca
http://www.statistica.unimib.it/utenti/dellavedova/
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