[OS X TeX] Trouble with Cyrillic on new Mac Pro

[David Watson]

My mistake, the commands should have read
     ls -l ~/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/tfm
and
     chown -R derbes:derbes ~/.texlive2007

I am assuming that your "short user name" is derbes.
Please forgive me for your wasted effort.

On Feb 3, 2008, at 8:20 AM, David Derbes wrote:

>
> On Feb 3, 2008, at 7:45 AM, David Watson wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2008, at 7:11 AM, David Derbes wrote:
>>> Here is the console's output:
>>>
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cyrillic/ 
>>> t2acmr.fd)kpathsea: Running mktextfm larm1095
>>> mkdir: ././Users/derbes/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/tfm:  
>>> Permission denied
>>> mktextfm: mktexdir /Users/derbes/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/tfm/ 
>>> lh/lh-t2a failed.
>>> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>>>
>>
>> Assuming that the directory does exist, the Disk Utilities' Repair  
>> Permissions will not know about it or what the permissions should be.
>
> Evidently, the directory does not exist:
>
> sudo ls -l ~/Users/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/tfm
> Password:
> ls: /Users/derbes/Users/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/tfm: No such  
> file or directory
>
> So I'm a little mystified.
>
>>
>>
>> I would open a Terminal and do
>>   ls -l ~/Users/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/tfm
>> to investigate what the permissions are on both your new and your  
>> old desktop.
>>
>> You can use
>>   chown -R derbes:derbes ~/Users/.texlive2007/
>> on your new Mac to make sure that the user and group permissions  
>> are all set to "derbes" in that folder, as well.
>
> david-derbess-mac-pro:~ derbes$ chown -R derbes:derbes ~/ 
> Users/.texlive2007/
> chown: derbes: Invalid argument
>
> I assume the directory's absence triggers "Invalid argument", but I  
> am nearly completely ignorant of unix.
>
> Many thanks, David.
>
> David Derbes
> U of Chicago Lab Schools