Description of problem: See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449221 for a full description of the problem. The problem came from upstream texlive and so affected debian and other linux distros. This bug does not appear to be fixed in fedora 9 stable yet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): texlive-texmf-latex-2007-22.fc9.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a text file containing (such as test): \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{bbold} \begin{document} $\mathbb{R}$ \end{document} 2. and run latex against it: latex test Actual results: About 27,000 lines of errors. The pertinent errors are near the top and consist of: (/usr/people/faculty/acs/jcross/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/source/public/bbol d/bbold11.mf (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbold.mf (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbparams.mf >> asc_height#-x_height#-0.30714bigcap# ! Unknown relation will be considered false. <to be read again> Expected results: There should be no errors and the console output should look something like this: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size11.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/bbold/bbold.sty) (./test.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/bbold/Ubbold.fd) [1] (./test.aux) ) Additional info: As suggested in the debian bug fix URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449221 Removing the file: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/jknapltx/ubbold.fd and then running mktexlsr fixes the problem. So I'm assuming that /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/jknapltx/ubbold.fd should be removed from the texlive-texmf-latex package.
The ubbold.fd is now removed. The fix will occur in the next build of TeX Live.
Please test the following update if you have a while: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/texlive-2007-32.fc9,texlive-texmf-2007-24.fc9 It should finally fix this and couple of other issues :)
texlive-texmf-2007-24.fc9, texlive-2007-32.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update texlive-texmf texlive'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8931
texlive-texmf-2007-24.fc9, texlive-2007-32.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
This problem seems to persist in Fedora 10. I have even removed /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/jknapltx/ubbold.fd and run mktexlsr, but that does not seem to solve the problem. I am using versions "texlive-texmf-latex.noarch 0:2007-26.fc10" and "texlive-latex.i386 0:2007-35.fc10". Any suggestions? Here is a trace of the first few lines from the error log: ------- This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6) (base=mf 2009.2.11) 13 FEB 2009 11:36 **\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input bbold11 (/home/gaurav/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbold11.mf (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbold.mf (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbparams.mf >> asc_height#-x_height#-0.30714bigcap# ! Unknown relation will be considered false. <to be read again> : <for(asc_height#)> if(EXPR0)<u_: u_:=(EXPR0);fi ENDFOR min->...);for.uu=(TEXT3):if.uu<u_:u_:=uu;fi.endfor .u_.endgroup l.117 ...height# + space# + fatness#, asc_height#) ; Oh dear. I can't decide if the expression above is positive, negative, or zero. So this comparison test won't be `true' --------
This problem persists in Fedora 11 and 12; the file mentioned as removed in comment 1 has reappeared: $ rpm -q texlive-texmf-latex texlive-texmf-latex-2007-32.fc12.noarch $ rpm -ql texlive-texmf-latex | egrep -i ubbold /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/bbold/Ubbold.fd /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/jknapltx/ubbold.fd The latter is the one that should be removed. Testcase: latex '\documentclass[11pt]{article}\usepackage{bbold}\begin{document}\textbb{ABC}\end{document}' Falls over with screenfuls of errors if ubbold.fd is still present.
I note that this is currently CLOSED NEXTRELEASE. Which release will that be? The file is still present in texlive-texmf-latex-2007-35.fc13.noarch from today's rawhide...