Bug#366858: marked as done (mktextfm should not fail if /var/cache/fonts i unwritable)
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--- Begin Message ---
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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--- Begin Message ---
Source: tex-common
Source-Version: 0.23
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tex-common, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
tex-common_0.23.dsc
to pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_0.23.dsc
tex-common_0.23.tar.gz
to pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_0.23.tar.gz
tex-common_0.23_all.deb
to pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_0.23_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 366858@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> (supplier of updated tex-common package)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:56:32 +0200
Source: tex-common
Binary: tex-common
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.23
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Description:
tex-common - Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian
Closes: 354113 366789 366812 366858 366907 367162 367180 367183
Changes:
tex-common (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
.
* After the groupname question has been renamed, make sure that the new
questions are not shown again when the old one has already been seen,
and unregister the old question (closes: #366812) [frank]
* Fix bashism in config (closes: #366789) [frank]
* Fix our check for a working configuration in texmf.d, and write short
information messages to stderr for the noninteractive frontend or for
people who don't have a pencil (closes: #366907), thanks Ralf [frank]
* Make sure the font cache directory is always world-writeable - we
previously missed the case where apt-utils are installed in a buildd
chroot (again closes: #354113, #366858) [frank]
* Updated debconf translations: [frank]
- Czech by Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz> (closes: #367162)
- Danish by Claus Hindsgaul <claus.hindsgaul@gmail.com> (closes:
#367180)
- Italian by Luca Monducci <luca.mo@tiscali.it> (closes: #367183)
* Debian TeX Policy:
Remove last occurrences of obsolete TEXMFSITE.
Files:
3717ecdfa89ff0731d95db75104327ce 753 tex optional tex-common_0.23.dsc
4c8f17fccc40a80574176c229462a1e5 302081 tex optional tex-common_0.23.tar.gz
cd4c0d886238d0b462135828b9b5e759 284850 tex optional tex-common_0.23_all.deb
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