[OS X TeX] Font problem

[Peter Pagin]

Michael,

On 10 dec 2009, at 08.22, Michael Sharpe wrote:

> 
> On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Peter Pagin wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> ---------------------------------
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Does
> 
> sudo /bin/rm -r ~/.texlive2009


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

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> 
> do anything different? Or, failing that,
> 
> sudo /usr/sbin/chown -R `/usr/bin/whoami` ~/.texlive2009


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Macintosh-309:~ ppagin$ sudo /usr/sbin/chown -R `/usr/bin/whoami` ~/.texlive2009-bash: /usr/bin/whoami: Permission denied

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Doesn't look promising.

Peter

> 
> followed by 
> 
> rm -r ~/.texlive2009
> 
> Michael
> 
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