Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can you try >> >> apt-get --reinstall install tex-common >> >> and see whether this helps? It should, but now the directories are >> world-writable until you dpkg-reconfigure it again. > > I now have > > notebook2:/var/cache/fonts# ls -la > insgesamt 24 > drwxrwsr-t 5 root users 4096 2006-05-01 16:45 . > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2006-04-30 16:18 .. > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 79 2006-05-01 07:36 ls-R > drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 2006-04-21 09:55 pk > drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 2006-04-21 09:55 source > drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 2006-04-21 09:55 tfm > > and > > notebook2:/var/cache/fonts# ls -la tfm > insgesamt 8 > drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 2006-04-21 09:55 . > drwxrwsr-t 5 root users 4096 2006-05-01 16:45 .. > > But the error when trying to compile my .tex file is still the same.
Oh. So let's try to dissect the commands called by TeX. Please try first kpsewhich --format='web2c files' mktexdir This should give "/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexdir". Assuming that this is the same on your system, please call the following commands: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/ echo $? ls /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ I assume this will again fail to create /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec. For debugging, call sh -x /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/ 2> mktexdir.log and send us the resulting file mktexdir.log Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
