Bug#365583: Font problem

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> wrote:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> That points to a real bug in the package.  Please send us the output of
>> 
>> ls -al /var/cache/fonts/
>> ls -al /var/cache/fonts/tfm/
>> grep users /etc/group
>
>
> notebook2:/usr/local/bin# ls -al /var/cache/fonts/
> insgesamt 12
> drwxrwsr-t  2 root users 4096 2006-04-30 16:19 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  4096 2006-04-30 16:18 ..
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root users   79 2006-05-01 07:36 ls-R
> notebook2:/usr/local/bin# ls -al /var/cache/fonts/tfm/
> ls: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

This is strange: /var/cache/fonts/{tfm,pk,source} are included in the
deb, just their permissions are supposed to be changed.

Can you try 

apt-get --reinstall install tex-common

and see whether this helps?  It should, but now the directories are
world-writable until you dpkg-reconfigure it again.

A general remark to the Debian TeX Task force: Shouldn't we use
dpkg-statoverride for these three directories?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)