Didier Verna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just discovered that mktexmf can't write to /var/cache/fonts (and below) > anymore, making it impossible for any user to process LaTeX files requiring > the generation of new font descriptions.
Did you read /usr/share/doc/tex-common/README.Debian? If not, would it have helped you understand the problem? > Note for the reader potentially suffering from this problem: adding you to > this group is not enough. It is not even enough to start a new shell. You have > to really login again (or maybe newgrp would suffice ?) for the change to take > effect. If somebody can explain this to me, I'm interested. That's how it's always been on UNIX systems. teTeX folks, I fear we have to revert this change and make the system insecure by default. I suggest that we change it only for fresh installations and leave unstable users to chmod -R. Comments? -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
