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BroXenTeX
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PFB Font Files not found

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A perfectly working TeX Live installation at ~user was broken by an upgrade from TeX Live 2009 to 2011.

I've managed to fix the problem except for the failure of TeX to locate the Type 1 (.pfb) fonts I have installed in my ~user TeX directory.

I've already run:

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updmap --enable Map=/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/dvips/config/ul9.map
Here "/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf" is my TEXMFHOME, sanitized via a simple sed substitution (i.e. tekkie isn't my real user name and the actual ~/TeXtree directory is several levels deeper than ~user).

The problematic font (which could be found by my previous TeXLive 2009 installation) is installed at "/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/fonts/type1/public/luxi/", along with the following related files and directories:

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/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/dvips/config/ul9.map
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/web2c/ls-R
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/tex/latex/luxi/t1ul9.fd
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/tex/latex/luxi/ts1ul9.fd
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/tex/latex/luxi/luximono.sty
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/fonts/map/vtex/ul9.ali
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/fonts/type1/public/luxi/
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/luxi/
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/fonts/vf/public/luxi/
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/fonts/afm/public/luxi/
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/doc/fonts/luxi/luximono.txt
/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/doc/fonts/luxi/LICENSE
Running PDFLaTeX aborts with the following error:

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kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+57/600 --dpi 657 ul9r8r
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ul9r8r.
mktexpk: perhaps ul9r8r is missing from the map file.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
(see the transcript file for additional information)
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ul9r8r): Font ul9r8r at 657 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
The contents of missing.log:

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mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+57/600 --dpi 657 ul9r8r

The contents of the map file "/home/tekkie/TeXtree/texmf/dvips/config/ul9.map":

ul9r8r LuxiMono " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <ul9r8a.pfb
ul9b8r LuxiMono-Bold " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <ul9b8a.pfb
ul9ro8r LuxiMono-Oblique " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <ul9ro8a.pfb
ul9bo8r LuxiMono-BoldOblique " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <ul9bo8a.pfb

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