Re: [Texmacs-dev] GCC 3.2 status update

[Felix Breuer]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 22:23, Alexander Isacson wrote:
> This is great news. I installed texmacs from gentoo with the CXXFLAGS
> set to -mcpu=i386 and now it seems more stable. But I did have some
> problems with emphasized text. It segfaulted when trying to generate the
> font. This is what was written to the console:
> 
> TeXmacs] Executing mktextfm ecbx14.tfm
> mktextfm: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/ecbx14.tfm already exists.
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/cache/fonts/ls-R unwritable.
> /var/cache/fonts/tfm/ecbx14.tfm
> TeXmacs] Loading cmr14 at 600 dpi
> TeXmacs] Loading ecti10 at 600 dpi
> TeXmacs] Executing mktextfm ecti10.tfm
> mktextfm: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/ecti10.tfm already exists.
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/cache/fonts/ls-R unwritable.
> /var/cache/fonts/tfm/ecti10.tfm
> Warning: I could not find the TeX font ecti10 at 600 dpi
>          I will use the standard font cmr10 instead
> 
> Fatal error: more bits than required while unpacking in 'unpack'
> See file   : load-pk.gen.cc
> 
> 
> When I started texmacs again the text did not become emphazised and I
> tried recreateing the fonts, first by removing my ~/.texmacs dir and
> also by issuing the following command:
> 
> mktextfm ecti10.tfm                         
> 
> which yields:
> 
> mktextfm: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/ecti10.tfm already exists.
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/ecti10.tfm
> 
> Any advice is greatly appriciated.

I just unmerged and remerged texmacs on my gentoo system and didn't run
into any trouble font-creation-wise. I tried running mktextfm and got
the same message as you did - when I ran it as root, however, it worked.
Of course you are not supposed to run texmacs as root (I don't either!)
but perhaps generating those fonts manually as root might help?

Felix