[Fedora TeX Live] cm-super woes due to updmap setup bug?

[Andrew Lutomirski]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> On one of my computers, cm-super isn't working.  I have:
>
> $ rpm -qa |grep cm-super
> texlive-cm-super-fedora-fonts-2011-0.2.svn15878.fc15.noarch
> texlive-cm-super-2011-0.2.svn15878.fc15.noarch
>
> On the broken system,
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map has no
> mention of cm-super.  On a working system with the exact same cm-super
> version, there are lots of mentions of cm-super.  This problem
> survived a reinstall of texlive.  I'm running
> texlive-release-2011-0.2.20110621.fc15.noarch.
>
> One issue I found is that, after a fresh install, updmap.cfg did not
> mention cm.map. Reinstalling texlive-amsfonts fixed that, but cm-super
> still doesn't work.
>
> On a good system, updmap.log says:
>
> Scanning for MixedMap entries
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t1.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t2a.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t2b.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t2c.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-ts1.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-x2.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/amsfonts/cm.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/amsfonts/cmextra.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/cm/cmtext-bsr-interpolated.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/amsfonts/cyrillic.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/amsfonts/latxfont.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/mflogo/mflogo.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/amsfonts/symbols.map
>
> On a bad system, it says:
>
> Scanning for MixedMap entries
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/cm/cmtext-bsr-interpolated.map
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/mflogo/mflogo.map
>
> My best guess is that this has something to do with confusion between
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg and
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg.  Deleting
> /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg a couple times and rerunning updmap-sys a
> couple times fixed it.
>
> I don't know how updmap is supposed to work, so I'm at a loss to debug further.
>

This just happened on another one of my systems after installing some
new fonts.  Somehow /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg isn't getting updated.
 Deleting it fixes the problem.  Copying the old bogus copy back over
/etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg breaks it again.

--Andy