Bug#264799: tetex-base: latex fails due to permission problems
Package: tetex-base
Version: 2.0.2a-2
Severity: important
Hello,
running LaTeX with the latest of tetex-base yields this:
$ cat test.tex
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[gennarrow]{eurosym}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{longtable}
\begin{document}
\sffamily
\pagestyle{headings}
\section{x}
test
\end{document}
$ latex test.tex
This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.efmt
running `tex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' ...
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INITEX)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/latex.ini
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg)
./texsys.aux found
\@currdir set to: ./.
Assuming \openin and \input
have the same search path.
Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser.
catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters,
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
hacks, control, par, spacing, files, font encodings, lengths,
====================================
Local config file fonttext.cfg used
====================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/fonttext.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fonttext.ltx
=== Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omlenc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omsenc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1cmss.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1cmtt.fd)))
====================================
Local config file fontmath.cfg used
====================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/fontmath.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontmath.ltx
=== Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omlcmm.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmsy.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omxcmex.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ucmr.fd)))
====================================
Local config file preload.cfg used
=====================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/preload.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/preload.ltx)) page nos., x-ref,
environments,
center, verbatim, math definitions, boxes, title, sectioning, contents,
floats, footnotes, index, bibliography, output,
===========================================
Local configuration file hyphen.cfg used
===========================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/frhyph.tex
frhyph.tex - French hyphenation patterns (V2.11) <2002/01/16>)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehypht.tex
German Traditional Hyphenation Patterns `dehypht' Version 3.2a
<1999/03/03>
(Formerly known under the name `ghyph31' and `ghyphen'.))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehyphn.tex
New German Hyphenation Patterns `dehyphn' Rev.31 <2001-05-07> (WaS))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/nohyph.tex Norsk hyphenation
patterns)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ruhyphen/ruhyphen.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ruhyphen/catkoi.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ruhyphen/koi2t2a.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ruhyphen/ruhyphal.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ruhyphen/cyryoal.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ruhyphen/hypht2.tex))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex))
=================================
Applying patch file ltpatch.ltx
=================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ltpatch.ltx)
) )
Beginning to dump on file latex.fmt
(format=latex 2004.8.10)
4190 strings of total length 54948
45997 memory locations dumped; current usage is 144&41737
3039 multiletter control sequences
\font\nullfont=nullfont
\font\OMX/cmex/m/n/10=cmex10
\font\tenln=line10
\font\tenlnw=linew10
\font\tencirc=lcircle10
\font\tencircw=lcirclew10
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/5=cmr5
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/7=cmr7
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/10=cmr10
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/5=cmmi5
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/7=cmmi7
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/10=cmmi10
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/5=cmsy5
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/7=cmsy7
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/10=cmsy10
3633 words of font info for 14 preloaded fonts
24 hyphenation exceptions
Hyphenation trie of length 34920 has 1066 ops out of 35111
135 for language 5
220 for language 4
235 for language 3
207 for language 2
88 for language 1
181 for language 0
No pages of output.
Transcript written on latex.log.
rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.log': Permission denied
mv: inter-device move failed: `latex.log' to
`/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.log'; unable to remove target: Permission
denied
rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt': Permission denied
mv: inter-device move failed: `latex.fmt' to
`/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt'; unable to remove target: Permission
denied
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R unwritable.
I can't find the format file `latex.efmt'!
Looking at eg. /var/lib/texmf:
$ l /var/lib/texmf
total 388
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2004-08-05 23:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 83 root root 4096 2004-08-10 14:15 ..
drwxr-xr-t 3 root root 4096 2004-08-05 23:49 dvips
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29845 2003-02-16 02:49 helpindex.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 146 2004-02-28 23:52 language.dat.dpkg-old
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 1073 2004-08-10 14:30 ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 335861 2004-08-10 14:30 ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2004-08-05 23:49 web2c
Trying to /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure tetex-base to switch off the "old"
configs mentioned below resulted in dpkg-reconfigure exiting silently.
The problem exists for both old files as well as new files.
Best,
--Toni++
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii texinfo 4.7-2.1 Documentation system for on-line i
ii ucf 1.07 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information:
tetex-base/olddat: true
tetex-base/oldupdm:
tetex-base/oldcfg: true
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