RE: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Olumide >Sent: 21 September 2005 21:06 > Olumide wrote: > >> I typed 'texdoc kpathsea' and the kpathsea Library (DVI document, 60 >> pages) popped up, but I still dont know what to do. > > I actually did the impossible and looked at the document (gasp ;) ). > Ther

Re: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Brooks Moses
Larry Hall wrote: At 04:14 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote: For posterity's sake: $ mktexlsr mktexlsr: Updating /cygdrive/h/.texmf/config/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /cygdrive/h/.texmf/var/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/lilypond/2.4.3/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr:

Re: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:14 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote: >Olumide wrote: > >>I actually did the impossible and looked at the document (gasp ;) ). Theres a >>mktexlsr script (in /usr/bin) that fixes the problems. But there are a few >>ls-R files all over the filesyetem that require write permissions before the >>mktexl

Re: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Olumide
Olumide wrote: I actually did the impossible and looked at the document (gasp ;) ). Theres a mktexlsr script (in /usr/bin) that fixes the problems. But there are a few ls-R files all over the filesyetem that require write permissions before the mktexlsr can write to them. For posterity's sak

Re: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Olumide
Olumide wrote: I typed 'texdoc kpathsea' and the kpathsea Library (DVI document, 60 pages) popped up, but I still dont know what to do. I actually did the impossible and looked at the document (gasp ;) ). Theres a mktexlsr script (in /usr/bin) that fixes the problems. But there are a few ls-

Re: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Olumide
Larry Hall wrote: At 03:15 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote: Looks like there are no usable entries in /var/cache/fonts/ls-R. If I were you, I would see the manual for how to generate ls-R. Which manual is that? Try 'info kpathsea'. I typed 'texdoc kpathsea' and the kpathsea Library (DVI docume

Re: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Olumide
Larry Hall wrote: At 03:15 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote: Looks like there are no usable entries in /var/cache/fonts/ls-R. If I were you, I would see the manual for how to generate ls-R. Which manual is that? Try 'info kpathsea'. Sorry, nothing :( -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Re: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:15 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote: >> Looks like there are no usable entries in /var/cache/fonts/ls-R. If I >>were you, I would see the manual for how to generate ls-R. > >Which manual is that? Try 'info kpathsea'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, In

Re: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Olumide
BTW, one possible reason might be that the perms got messed up and the postinstall script couldn't write to the file. Take a look at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00454.html and check the user/group names and privs on that file. The file ls-R is empty (zero bytes) and read on

Re: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Olumide
Looks like there are no usable entries in /var/cache/fonts/ls-R. If I were you, I would see the manual for how to generate ls-R. Which manual is that? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 21 September 2005 18:02 > Original Message >> From: Olumide >> Sent: 21 September 2005 17:54 > >> Hi - >> >> Whenever I start up Cygwin (on my WinXP machine) I get the following >> error messages: >> >> warning: kpathsea: No usable entri

RE: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Olumide >Sent: 21 September 2005 17:54 > Hi - > > Whenever I start up Cygwin (on my WinXP machine) I get the following > error messages: > > warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /var/cache/fonts/ls-R > warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.