[OS X TeX] Font problem

[Peter Pagin]

Thanks Herb, Adam and Michael,
but the attempts to follow the suggestion end with


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Macintosh-309:~ ppagin$ rm -r ~/.texlive2009
-bash: /bin/rm: Permission denied
Macintosh-309:~ ppagin$ sudo rm -r ~/.texlive2009
sudo: rm: command not found

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I don't know much about Unix, but the last line strikes me as unexpected as well.

The general problems seem to have started when TeXLive Utility updates stopped working: there was a critical update (something.infra) that repeatedly failed. I tried to update tlmgr with TeXLive Utility, and that failed as well. Then I updated tlmgr from the command line and did an update from the command line, after which TeXLive Utility updates worked again. Maybe something messed up the directory in the process.

Michael, you are right that I tried updmap before trying updmap-sys, but that was only after my typesetting problems had started.

I am not desperate since I can still typeset fine with TeXLive 2008. Maybe I should try reinstalling MacTeX-2009?

Best,
Peter


On 9 dec 2009, at 23.57, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Dec 9, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 9, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Peter Pagin wrote:
>> 
>>> /Users/pp
>>> agin/.texlive2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> This segment of the console file shows that it is picking up the font map file pdftex.map from your personal folder, not the system folder, which means you must have run updmap at some time after installing mactex 2009 and before trying  sudo updmap-sys. I'd suggest deleting the personal map files if you don't intend to make use of anything but those in the system.
>> 
>> In Terminal,
>> 
>> rm /Users/.texxlive2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/*.map
>> rm /Users/.texxlive2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/*.map
>> rm /Users/.texxlive2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap/*.map
>> 
>> After that, LaTeX should pick up the system version of pdftex.map. It's not good news about getting permission denied errors while running sudo [-H] updmap-sys, but that's another issue.
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Good observation! That should be
> 
> rm -r ~/.texlive2009
> 
> and if that gives permission denied (a symptom of using `sudo updmap' rather than `sudo updmap-sys') you need
> 
> suod rm -r ~/.texlive2009
> 
> since root will own the ~/.texlive2009 directory.
> 
> The ~/.texlive2009 directory will be recreated if needed so no worry.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
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