Bug#361375: tetex-base: [dvips] Unable to create fonts for commands from the textcomp package

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 08.04.06 Thomas Braun (braun@physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote:

Hello,

> I compiled a latex file with arrow symbols from the textcomp
> package. The font generation stuff for dvips failed and the log
> message stated that it could not write to
> /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/tc/ and therefore I only had black
> boxes in the ps file.
> 
> thomas@thomas:~$ls -dl /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/tc/
> drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 2006-04-08 
> 13:06 /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/tc/
> 
Well, the dir is only writeable as normal user if you're a member of
the group "users". Unfortunately this is not the default in Debian.
During upgrading of tex-common you should have been informed about
that. If not, please call back.
Further: getting a member of group users should fix that bug.

H.
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