Vincent, what's the output of: kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMFCNF' and do you have the environment variable TEXMFCNF set?
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:00:03AM +0200, Frank K??ster wrote: > Thomas Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> texmf.cnf, in the current directory are read. Or tried to read, the > >> user who reported this as http://bugs.debian.org/358330 has an > >> nfs-mounted homedir in which root has no right to read files, and always > >> gets error messages: > >> > >> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > > > > Does this mean, that debian has "." in the search path for texmf.cnf > > files? If yes, where (beginning, end, middle)? > > No, the file is only read because of KPSE_DOT. Or rather, it seemed to > be, in the log that Vincent posted to the Debian bug: > > ,---- > | Here is now what I tested : > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] danjean# TEXMFVAR=/var/lib/texmf > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] danjean# TEXMFCONFIG=/etc/texmf > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] danjean# RUNNING_AS_SYS=true > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] danjean# export TEXMFVAR TEXMFCONFIG RUNNING_AS_SYS > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] danjean# kpsewhich '--expand-var=$VARTEXFONTS' > | /var/cache/fonts > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] danjean# export KPSE_DOT="/users/huron/danjean" > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] danjean# kpsewhich '--expand-var=$VARTEXFONTS' > | /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > | /var/cache/fonts So seems that there's a . somewhere in Vincent's TEXMFCNF. > He executed all variable setting stuff that happens when calling > fmtutil-sys (the RUNNING_AS_SYS is a Debian-specific hack for backwards > compatibility that we hope to be able to drop soon). > > But I'm confused, since here the behavior is different: > > ,---- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kpsewhich --format=cnf texmf.cnf > | /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export KPSE_DOT=/home/frank/ > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kpsewhich --format=cnf texmf.cnf > | /home/frank/uni/zuerich/Praktikum/auto/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > | /home/frank/uni/zuerich/Praktikum/auto/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > | /home/frank/uni/zuerich/Praktikum/auto/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > | /home/frank/uni/zuerich/Praktikum/auto/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > | /home/frank/uni/zuerich/Praktikum/auto/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > | /home/frank/uni/zuerich/Praktikum/auto/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > | /home/frank/uni/zuerich/Praktikum/auto/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > | /home/frank/uni/zuerich/Praktikum/auto/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > | /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > `---- > > (this .../auto/ directory somehow lost it's x permission, therefore > couldn't be read and searched for a texmf.cnf file, but there's none). > > So this means that on my system KPSE_DOT is not searched for cnf files, > but it seems to be searched for TEXMF trees? kpsewhere doesn't show the > local copy, either. That's a bit weird. And what's it doing traversing the /home/frank tree, anyway? What's your output of kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMFCNF' ? Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
