kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)
Dave Korn
dave.korn@artimi.com
Wed Sep 21 19:04:00 GMT 2005
----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 entries in /var/cache/fonts/ls-R
>> warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
>> warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /var/cache/fonts/ls-r
>> warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R.
>>
>>
>> What can I do about it? I think its affecting my LaTeX builds
>>
>
> 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.
>
>
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.
cheers,
DaveK
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