Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-03 Thread Frank Küster
Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see. You fear that dpkg resets the owner/perms for the files it > manages. But AFAIK, that has never been reported, right? *If* someone > reports such a problem, OK, adding the 2nd mechanism using > dpkg-statoverride would be sensible. But otherwise, d

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-03 Thread Florent Rougon
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't feel well, not knowing why something is not broken. But I think > you are right, we've got more important and more interesting things to > do. I believe I would feel the same if I had written the code. :) I'll try to have a look and understand t

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-03 Thread Florent Rougon
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uh, it does *not* happen, I just checked it. I know that Gt. >> at runtime in the cache directories. If a recursive change was needed, >> that would rule out the possibility of using dpkg-statoverride, because >> I suppose it can only be used for fi

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-03 Thread Frank Küster
Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The problem with the current setup is that (I think) dpkg will override >> the debconf-changed setting for tfm, pk and source with the permissions >> in the deb, but the dialog will not be shown again. > > When does it happen? On upgrade? That would be

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-03 Thread Florent Rougon
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ about dpkg-statoverride ] >>>From the manpage, I have the impression that it is intended to be run by >> users, not really by Debian package maintainer scripts. > > Hm, well - if the maintainer script asked the user, isn't it the user > who runs it? Hmm

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Frank Küster wrote: > You said that you are member of the users group - have you been that > before this problem, or have you only added the user today? You need to > log out and in again to make this change effective. > > So the problem can probably be reproduced simply by trying to create the

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Frank Küster
Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A general remark to the Debian TeX Task force: Shouldn't we use >> dpkg-statoverride for these three directories? > >>From the manpage, I have the impression that it is intended to be run by > users, not reall

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Frank Küster
Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> sh -x /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/ 2> >> mktexdir.log [...] > + mkdir ././var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen > mkdir: kann Verzeichnis â.�././var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappenâ.� nicht anlegen: > Keine Berechtigung > +

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Frank Küster
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 > in

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Florent Rougon
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A general remark to the Debian TeX Task force: Shouldn't we use > dpkg-statoverride for these three directories? >From the manpage, I have the impression that it is intended to be run by users, not really by Debian package maintainer scripts. Probably, we

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
> 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/mkt

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Frank Küster
Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: > >> That points to a real bug in the package. Please send us the output of >> >> ls -al /var/cache/fonts/ >> ls -al /var/cache/fonts/tfm/ >> grep users /etc/group > > > notebook2:/usr/local/bin# ls -al /var/cache/fonts/ > ins

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
> 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 . dr

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Frank Küster wrote: > That points to a real bug in the package. Please send us the output of > > ls -al /var/cache/fonts/ > ls -al /var/cache/fonts/tfm/ > grep users /etc/group notebook2:/usr/local/bin# ls -al /var/cache/fonts/ insgesamt 12 drwxrwsr-t 2 root users 4096 2006-04-30 16:19 . drwx

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Frank Küster
Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: > >> >> try >> >> dpkg-reconfigure -plow tex-common >> >> It will ask you questions about directory permissions, please try to >> read and understand them and tell us whether this helps. If it doesn't, >> you didn't understa

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Frank Küster
Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure this is abug in tetx-base, but I suppose it is a bug in > some Debian TeX package. If it's a bug, it's in tex-common. > I removed some packages via apt-get --purge remove and reinstalled them, > but it didn't help: > cm-super dvi2ps

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Frank Küster wrote: > > try > > dpkg-reconfigure -plow tex-common > > It will ask you questions about directory permissions, please try to > read and understand them and tell us whether this helps. If it doesn't, > you didn't understand the text, which probably means that it hasn't been > writ

Bug#365583: Font problem

2006-05-01 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Package: tetex-base Version: 3.0-17 I can't compile the following file - neither using latex nor pdftex: \documentclass[10pt]{scrartcl} %\usepackage{ucs} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{scrpage2} \title{Schlange CV} \author{Philipp Klaus Kra