From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686) xdvi dmj010424 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmr9 mkdir: cannot create directory `/mt25541.tmp': Permission denied kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. xdvi.bin: Can't find font cmr9.600pk kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+120/600 --dpi 720 msbm10 mkdir: cannot create directory `/mt25550.tmp': Permission denied Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create .tex file with any of the above listed fonts 2.Create .dvi file from the above .tex file 3. Run xdvi on the .dvi file and observe these errors Actual Results: xdvi dmj010424 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmr9 mkdir: cannot create directory `/mt25541.tmp': Permission denied kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. xdvi.bin: Can't find font cmr9.600pk kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+120/600 --dpi 720 msbm10 mkdir: cannot create directory `/mt25550.tmp': Permission denied Expected Results: no error messages From the error message, it appears that / is being listed as the temporary directory instead of /tmp
Well I have the same packages and it is working fine! It just created some new fonts in /tmp this morning. Just to try something get the -16 rpms from rawhide and try them out.
Perhaps you have something odd in your environment which is setting / as the temporary directory? Could you attach a small example tex file that shows this up, so that we know we're trying the same thing?
The problem was caused by the user's path causing a version of MakeTeXPK to be seen before the 7.1 version. This should no longer be considered a bug.