From: Andrew S. <str...@as...> - 2005-06-22 15:50:13
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On Jun 21, 2005, at 1:09 PM, John Hunter wrote: > Fernando> I also just saw pylab crash when a user was trying to > Fernando> run with $PWD being something he didn't have write > Fernando> access to. Are there any checks in the code to fall > Fernando> back to /tmp or something sensible if texmanager can't > Fernando> write the temp files it needs? Sorry for not giving a > Fernando> traceback, but I only saw this on someone else's screen > Fernando> while helping them, and for some odd reason it's not > Fernando> happening on my box. > > This is probably failing on the tex/latex temporary files. I spent > some time initially trying to figure out how to get these to go into > ~/.tex.cache but didn't succeed. If anyone knows how to direct > tex/latex to put the various *.aux, *.log, etc, files in a specified > directory, pass it my way. I get this when mpl complains about not being able to create a .ttffont.cache (or whatever it's called) file. I'll submit a bug on the tracker later. Cheers! Andrew |