Bug#321094: solved

[Ralf Stubner <Ralf.Stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de>]

Christoph Bier <christoph.bier@web.de> writes:
[...]
> As long as updmap called by a normal user can't write
> /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R I would except updmap called by root
> would do the job for every user, i.e. creating a correct
> /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map.

That is one of the strange aspects about teTeX-3.0. If you call updmap
as *any* user, it will update the map files in TEXMFVAR, which is
$HOME/.texmf-var/ by default. If you want to update the map files in
TEXMFSYSVAR, you have to call updmap-sys as root.

cheerio
ralf