Bug#574676: pdflatex font metrics generation problem when run as a web-server user

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

On 20.03.10 Bal K Paudyal (bal@attaritech.net) wrote:

Hi,

> I think this package has some issues. pdflatex run as a www-data
> user fails to create pk fonts cache at the working directory (the
> directory is writable by www-data) or /tmp. It fails with the
> following error:
> 
> *(see the transcript file for additional information)
>  !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ecsx1000): Font ecsx1000 at 600 not found
>   ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> 
IIRC the default to write the fonts to is the home directory of the
user ~/.texmf-var/.... If you don't like this you may change this in
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf, the parameter is called VARTEXFONTS.
Don't forget to run update-texmf as root.

Does this solve your problem?

H.
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