Description of problem: Always getting this error message: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/lib/texmf/ls-R unwritable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tetex-fonts-3.0-41.fc8 and any prior How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run latex on some document Actual results: The error message above, although the document compiles. Expected results: Compiles without an errors. Additional info:
I'm unable to reproduce it, so I assume it's a local misconfiguration, so that ls-R files need to be regenerated. Could you run texhash as root and try whether it happens again? Do you have any other tex packages installed on your system except the baseline tetex ones?
> I'm unable to reproduce it You need a clean install, that is. Otherwise you need to erase the font metrics cache for example, ie: rm -rf /var/lib/texmf/tfm Then latex will try to rebuild it, and will fail to update ls-R. rpm -qf /var/lib/texmf/tfm file /var/lib/texmf/tfm is not owned by any package
teTeX is now obsoleted by TeXLive in rawhide and removed. If you are sure the problem still applies also for TeXLive, please file a bug against following rawhide components: texlive - if you found bug in binary TeXLive utilities texlive-texmf - if find anything related to fonts/styles, noarch part texlive-texmf-errata - if you need to update font/style set.