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Yann21

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Registered: 2020-06-12

Posts: 28

[SOLVED] TeX-live permission denied ls-r

Hi,

I have a problem with my current installation of TeX-live I got from following the wiki. I always get permission errors every time I try to compile a tex file regardless of the engine (latex, pdflatex, xelatex).

`latex main.tex` gives me:

/var/lib/texmf/ls-r: Permission denied
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R: Permission denied
/var/lib/texmf/aliases: Permission denied
[...]
Output written on main.dvi (1 page, 380 bytes).
Transcript written on main.log.

But if I try with `pdflatex main.tex`, I get:

[...]
gsftopk: fatal: map file `psfonts.map' not found.
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ptmr8r.
mktexpk: perhaps ptmr8r is missing from the map file.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
 )
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ptmr8r): Font ptmr8r at 480 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Even though `sudo kpsewhich --engine=pdflatex --all psfonts.map` still finds something `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
` and running `sudo pdflatex main.tex` works fine.

Additionally, when I type tllocalmgr, I get:

Cannot open /var/lib/texmf/arch/installedpkgs/texlive-bibtexextra_63023.pkgs!

but `sudo tllocalmgr` gets me:

You can't run this program as root

Is there a solution to fixing these permission problems? Typing `sudo pdflatex` from the command line gets quickly old when I'm working inside emacs. Thanks.

Last edited by Yann21 (2022-10-31 06:29:09)

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,178

Re: [SOLVED] TeX-live permission denied ls-r

Compiling with sudo *will* cause problems.

pacman -Qkk <tex-packages-you-installed>

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Yann21

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Registered: 2020-06-12

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] TeX-live permission denied ls-r

Good news, I found the solution!

pacman -Qkk texlive-core                                                                                                                                                                    
backup file: texlive-core: /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf (Modification time mismatch)
backup file: texlive-core: /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf (Size mismatch)
backup file: texlive-core: /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf (MD5 checksum mismatch)
backup file: texlive-core: /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf (SHA256 checksum mismatch)
warning: texlive-core: /var/lib/texmf (Permissions mismatch)
warning: texlive-core: /var/lib/texmf/arch (Permission denied)
warning: texlive-core: /var/lib/texmf/arch/installedpkgs (Permission denied)
warning: texlive-core: /var/lib/texmf/arch/installedpkgs/texlive-core.fmts (Permission denied)
warning: texlive-core: /var/lib/texmf/arch/installedpkgs/texlive-core.maps (Permission denied)
warning: texlive-core: /var/lib/texmf/arch/installedpkgs/texlive-core_63035.pkgs (Permission denied)
texlive-core: 30880 total files, 6 altered files

I realized there was a permission mismatch on /var/lib/texmf. After reinstalling texlive-core, pacman told me that files inside /var/lib/texmf should have permission 755. So I solved the issue by running chmod 755 on the folder and the compilation is back to normal.

Thanks!

Last edited by Yann21 (2022-10-31 06:28:34)