From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31218 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjoy Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: wiki: debian installation Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:47:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <6faad9f00610031702w35081171s93bbb3cca02bfd88@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160023656 5928 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2006 04:47:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 05 06:47:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVL8u-0002Wi-GL for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:47:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF8B1FDE1; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:47:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26493-03-5; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:47:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86871FD5A; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:47:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A2A1FD5A for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:47:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26493-03-4 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:47:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk (mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk [131.111.48.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 458D01FD4A for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:47:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.158] ident=mail) by mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVL8X-0004nI-Rd; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:47:09 +0100 Original-Received: from sanjoy by skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1GVL8X-0000vM-00; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:47:09 +0100 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:02:17 +0200." <6faad9f00610031702w35081171s93bbb3cca02bfd88@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:31218 Archived-At: > > Warning: pdfetex (file /home/myuser/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/ > > context/original-base.map): invalid entry for `fmvr8x': font > > file missing > > Some time ago it was a hot topic on the mailing list. See: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Error_Recovery > and fix it if possible even if it is working now for some reason. I ran into the same issue a few days ago and eventually found my to the same solution. About the 'some reason': I noticed that without the fix, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. The answer is the damn database file (the ls-R). kpathsea searches in 'directory order', which you can find with 'ls -U'. So ls -U ~/texmf/fonts/map/ gave me pdfetex, dvips, then dvipdfm, and I couldn't understand why anyway the dvipdfm file was being found ahead of the pdfetex one (even without the $progname). The answer is that the ls-R file is listed in, well, ls -R order, which is not necessarily directory order. It's probably alphabetical. So dvipdfm is ahead of pdfetex. Getting rid of the ls-R means the pdfetex map file is found (good), but it can easily change back if some script makes a new ls-R (so it's not robust). Short version: Do the recommended fix. -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.