Comment 9 for bug 1010909

Hi

On So, 13 Jan 2013, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> In short, the problem is that the apparmor profile for evince does not
> allow the font files to be written.

As Debian maintainer of the package I cannot comment on what Ubuntu is
doing specially here.

> Unfortunately, the algorithm used by the TeXLive scripts to decide where
> to write generated font files is complicated. For example, in my case,
> they seem to be written under
>
> $HOME/texmf/fonts

Which is strange and can only be explained by your local adaptions.
On my computer it still installs into $TEXMFVAR = ~/.texmf-var

The respective files are:
 /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf
which by default contains
 : ${MT_FEATURES=appendonlydir:texmfvar}
which means that fonts are created in $TEXMFVAR

> and there are other possibilities, I believe. Hence, finding a solution
> that is both secure and reliable requires input from a TeXpert.
>
> For the moment I have simply disabled Evince's apparmor profile.

That is Ubuntu's problem, since I don't have any idea what AppArmor
is doing or prohibiting or messing up.

Norbert

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