Bug#366858: mktextfm should not fail if /var/cache/fonts i unwritable
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-16
Severity: important
If /var/cache/fonts/ is unwritable (for example if the user isn't in
the correct group), mktextfm fails:
| (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)kpathsea: Running
| mktextfm ecrmmkdir: cannot create directory
| `././var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen': Permission demktextfm: mktexdir
| /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec failed.
| kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
causing the entire (La)TeX process to fail. This seems undesirable
and unneeded; mktextfm should perhaps try to put the generated fonts
in /tmp/ or so. (or maybe the directory should be world-writable, or
mktextfm and friends should be g+s for a group that can write there).
The particular case that bit me was building a documentation package
in pbuilder. The default pbuilder user in the chroot is not in the
users group, and so any (La)TeX processing during the build process
fails.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc6
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.0 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.15.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dialog 1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii dpkg 1.13.19 package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-3 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkpathsea4 3.0-16 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-7 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler0c2 0.4.5+cvs20060215-2 PDF rendering library
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.1.0-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.36-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 3.0-17 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 2.0010 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii whiptail 0.51.6-31 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-bin recommends:
ii libxml-parser-perl 2.34-4 Perl module for parsing XML files
ii perl-tk 1:804.027-4 Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii psutils 1.17-21 A collection of PostScript documen
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.19 package maintenance system for Deb
ii tex-common 0.22 Common infrastructure for using an
ii ucf 2.0010 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.19 package maintenance system for Deb
ii tetex-base 3.0-17 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 2.0010 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information:
tetex-base/olddat: true
tetex-base/fmtutil-failed:
tetex-bin/cnf_name:
tetex-base/oldupdm:
tetex-base/updmap-failed:
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