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Description of problem: Every time(*) xdvi is run, it thinks it needs to regenerate all pk font files used in the dvi file, which takes quite some time, and generates error messages about the file already existing, and permission denied messages on /var/lib/texmf/ls-R (*) it seems to depend on the fonts used in the document; it can certainly be reproduced if the latex file includes txfonts (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/txfonts/txfonts.sty from the tetex-latex package) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tetex-3.0-20.FC5, tetex-xdvi-3.0-20.FC5, tetex-latex-3.0-20.FC5 How reproducible: always when running xdvi on a file that contains fonts from txfonts (and maybe others) since the upgrade to 3.0-20.FC5 Steps to Reproduce: 1. run latex (or tex) + xdvi on a file Actual results: kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 300 --mag 0+270/300 --dpi 270 txsy mktexpk: /var/lib/texmf/pk/modeless/public/txfonts/txsy.270pk already exists. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R unwritable. (and so on, for every font) Expected results: xdvi should be able to re-use preexisting font files, and generate new ones just once, and set proper permissions on generated files such that all users can use these fonts. Additional info: the problem doesn't occur with every font family, I have only managed to reproduce it so far using txfonts.sty
The latest FC5 update is tetex-3.0-29.fc5, could you please try to reproduce it again with this version a report back? Thanks.
Ok, done that, and the problem is still there. Here's a very simple file to test with: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{txfonts} \begin{document} test document \end{document} And here the output: $ latex txfonts-test.tex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) entering extended mode (./txfonts-test.tex LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/txfonts/txfonts.sty) (./txfonts-test.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/txfonts/omltxmi.fd) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/txfonts/omstxsy.fd) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/txfonts/omxtxex.fd) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/txfonts/utxexa.fd) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/txfonts/ot1txr.fd) [1] (./txfonts-test.aux) ) Output written on txfonts-test.dvi (1 page, 224 bytes). Transcript written on txfonts-test.log. $ xdvi txfonts-test.dvi kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 300 --mag 1+0/300 --dpi 300 rtxptmr mktexpk: /var/lib/texmf/pk/modeless/public/txfonts/rtxptmr.300pk already exists./usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R unwritable.
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The bug is not present in Fedora 7 (and higher)
Ok, closing then.