On 04 December 2007 13:18, Wilfried wrote: > Erik Demaine <edemaine> wrote: > >> The default installation of Cygwin tetex does not seem to have the >> right permissions for Vista to be happy (with User Account Protection >> turned on, as is default). Here is an example of an error message: >> >> $ latex filename.tex >> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) >> file:line:error style messages enabled. >> %&-line parsing enabled. >> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt >> tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not >> found. fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. >> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! >> >> It seems necessary to chmod -R u+w some subset of >> /var/cache/fonts, /usr/share/texmf, /usr/lib/texmf >> for latex to properly be able to build latex.fmt, >> ditto for pdflatex, and kpathsea to build fonts. >> Presumably this should happen in the initial installation, >> or somehow the permission issue should be avoided. > > I also observed this, even with UAC (User Account Control) deactivated. > Windows explorer reports that some files are read-only. > With Explorer's GUI, one can un-check the read-only property and tell > Explorer to set this for all child folders and files, but after this > they were still read-only. Very strange. > Same solution helped (I did a chmod -R u+rw g+rw).
Hmmm. I've had problems before with tetex files having no group ownership after installing as one user but running as another: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00454.html Is it possible that the same thing is happening as a result of running setup.exe as an admin user under vista but running cygwin itself as the ordinary limited user? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
