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From: Markus Dittrich <markusle@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] freemat-2.0 at gentooscience.org
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:06:59
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0608292156460.20259@woodpecker.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] freemat-2.0 at gentooscience.org by "Andrey G. Grozin"
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4 On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
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6 > On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Vadim wrote:
7 > Arrgh!!
8 >
9 > This kind of access violation again. I was told that they have been fixed
10 > once and for all.
11 >
12 > This has nothing to do with matio. This sort of thing happend to me
13 > innumerable times, for various packages. What happens:
14 >
15 > 1. Some ebuild (usually with the USE flag "doc") starts latex
16 > 2. Some font used in the latex file has not yet been used on this
17 > particular computer
18 > 3. latex starts metafont to generate this font
19 > 4. metafont wants to write it to /var/cache/fonts
20 > 5. This triggers sandbox violation
21 >
22 > I don't know how to fight against this. The only way seems to emerge with
23 > sandboxing switched off. The next time the same package can be emerged in
24 > the normal way, because all fonts used in its documentation has been
25 > already generated.
26 >
27 > This is *absolutely* generic problem, and something should be done about
28 > it.
29 >
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31 Hi,
32
33 Have a look at [1] and the links therein which provide some
34 info on how to work with the sandbox. Keep in mind, though, that
35 these commands should only be used if there really is no other way
36 (such as patching the makefile etc.) to get rid of the
37 sandbox violations; the sandbox is present for a very good reason!
38 An ebuild in portage that shows these commands in action would be
39 app-text/ptex-3.1.8.1_p20050418
40
41 Best,
42 Markus
43
44 [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/sandbox/index.html
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47 Markus Dittrich (markusle)
48 Gentoo Linux Developer
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Re: [gentoo-science] freemat-2.0 at gentooscience.org Andrew Randles <ehud42@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-science] freemat-2.0 at gentooscience.org "Andrey G. Grozin" <A.G.Grozin@×××××××.su>