[Fedora TeX Live] Fix for scalable cm?

[Ben Liblit]

Aidan Delaney wrote:
> Is there a fix for the issue discussed on
> http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/texlive/2011-March/000105.html yet?
[...]
> I'd appreciate a fix (or workaround) as soon as possible.

The message you link to describes a workaround that worked for me at the 
time.  (I wrote that message.)  Have you tried the same workaround?

As for how this problem arose in the first place, I know nothing more 
now than I did back then.