Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Die, 27 Sep 2005, Frank Küster wrote: >> > respective user/group/mode as specified in debconf. BUT: /var/lib/texmf >> > is *not* writable by the `users' group. Thus, calling mktexlsr does not >> > work, evene if the ls-R is writable. Any solutions for this problem? >> >> Are you sure that the user you tried with is in the "users" group? An >> ordinary new Debian user is only in the group named after his >> username. Here it works: > > YOu probably have writte permissions anyway: In my chroot cave: [..] > How does you /var/lib/texmf look like: > $ ls -ld /var/lib/texmf > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 25 16:31 /var/lib/texmf
Same here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lal /var/lib/texmf/ total 344 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2005-08-17 18:21 . drwxr-xr-x 52 root root 4096 2005-08-27 10:20 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2005-06-07 19:33 fonts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1242 2005-08-17 18:23 helpindex.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 1046 2005-09-27 16:09 ls-R -rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 316346 2005-09-27 16:09 ls-R-TEXMFMAIN drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2005-07-26 11:58 tex drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-09-27 13:18 web2c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf/ mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf//ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf/ mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... mktexlsr: Done. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ This is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l tex-common tetex-base tetex-bin Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-========================-========================-================================================================ ii tex-common 0.7 Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian ii tetex-base 3.0-7 Basic library files of teTeX ii tetex-bin 3.0-7.0.sarge1 The teTeX binary files Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
