Bug 377921

Summary:	app-emacs/auctex-11.86-r1 - sandbox violation in mkdir ././var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	José Romildo Malaquias <jrmalaq>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Emacs project <emacs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	tex
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	app-emacs:auctex-11.86-r1:20110805-210549.log emerge.info.txt Patch for auctex-11.86-r1.ebuild

Description José Romildo Malaquias 2011-08-05 21:15:30 UTC

Emerging auctex on my ~amd64 system fails with the error message:

[...]
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmtt9
ACCESS DENIED  mkdir:        /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir: cannot create directory `././var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public': Permission denied
mktexpk: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm failed.
[...]

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 José Romildo Malaquias 2011-08-05 21:18:19 UTC

Created attachment 282247 [details]
app-emacs:auctex-11.86-r1:20110805-210549.log

Log file produced by the command:

# emerge -avt app-emacs/auctex

Comment 2 José Romildo Malaquias 2011-08-05 21:23:49 UTC

After (as a normal user) unpacking the sources of auctex on a temporary directory and running "/configure" and "make", emerge succeeded in installing the package.

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-06 02:01:10 UTC

Please post your `emerge --info' output too.

Comment 4 José Romildo Malaquias 2011-08-06 02:20:12 UTC

Created attachment 282257 [details]
emerge.info.txt

Output of emerge '--info'

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2011-08-07 07:21:19 UTC

Created attachment 282369 [details, diff]
Patch for auctex-11.86-r1.ebuild

I cannot reproduce this, but does changing the ebuild as in attached patch fix the problem for you?

Comment 6 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-01-14 16:10:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Created attachment 282369 [details, diff] [details, diff]
> Patch for auctex-11.86-r1.ebuild
> 
> I cannot reproduce this, but does changing the ebuild as in attached patch fix
> the problem for you?

No reply.

+  14 Jan 2012; Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> auctex-11.86-r1.ebuild:
+  Assign VARTEXFONTS wrt bug 377921. Remove old blocker.