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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:08:03 +0100
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----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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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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