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As I told in a previous question, I'm migrating from Scientific Linux 6.2 to Slackware Linux 15.0.
I anticipated some problems but there are some I'm unable to solve myself.

My present question concerns some fonts TeX cannot find.
The first are omega fonts for greek letters: omsegr, omsegri, omsegrb, omsegrbi.
All fonts are present in the required directories:
/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/omega/omsegr.pfb
/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/misc/omsegr.tfm
and
/usr/share/texmf-dist/ls -R
contains reference to those files in
./fonts/type1/public/omega
and
./fonts/tfm/public/misc
Moreover
/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/fonts/map/dvips/omega/omega.map
contains
omsegr OmegaSerifGreek <omsegr.pfb
and so on.

However kpathsea does not find the required files and outputs a message about a missing map file.
What is happening?

EDIT

I follow Ulrike'suggestion.
Here is a minimum file showing the problem.

\font\gbold=omsegrb
{\gbold a} + {\gbold b}
\bye

Log file

This is TeX, Version 3.141592653 (TeX Live 2021 on Slackware) (preloaded format=tex)
(./baremin.tex [1] )
Output written on baremin.dvi (1 page, 264 bytes).
Transcript written on baremin.log.

When running xdvi baremin I get

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 omsegrb
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for omsegrb.
mktexpk: perhaps omsegrb is missing from the map file.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
xdvi: Can't find pixel font omsegrb; using cmr10 instead at 600 dpi.

The missfont.log

mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 omsegrb
Elio Fabri
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  • show a small but complete example and also the exact error message, not your interpretation. – Ulrike Fischer Jan 24 '23 at 20:30
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    A very warm welcome! – egreg Jan 24 '23 at 20:43
  • I am using Xubuntu 22.04, MikTeX distribution and TeXStudio on my laptop. So far, I didn't run into path issues. My installation is user based, meaning most of my TeX files are inside my home map. Did you read chapter 5 of the Kpathsea manual? Could it be a search path issue in the configuration of TeXLive on Slackware? Slackware is a rather minimalist distribution, that requires more Linux knowledge than Xubuntu. – alchemist Jan 24 '23 at 21:17
  • @UlrikeFischer I edited my post to follow your suggestion. Hope this suffices. – Elio Fabri Jan 25 '23 at 10:39
  • what happens if you do dvips baremin and pdftex baremin? – Ulrike Fischer Jan 25 '23 at 10:44
  • @UlrikeFischer Same error messages frorn mktexpk. – Elio Fabri Jan 25 '23 at 10:49
  • good, it is easier to debug pdftex than xdvi (which I don't have). Run some example with pdftex that doesn't error, and check at the end of the log which pdftex.map pdftex is using. Then run updmap-sys --listmaps and check (at the begin of the messages) if it updates your pdftex.map, and also check if it uses the map file from your font. (The most typical source for faulty maps are that you used updmap-user once, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/255711/2388). – Ulrike Fischer Jan 25 '23 at 11:10
  • The fact that the font is listed in omega.map is irrelevant if it is not also in psfonts.map. Running updmap-sys might fix the issue. – egreg Jan 25 '23 at 13:54
  • @egreg updmap-sys with which arguments? – Elio Fabri Jan 26 '23 at 09:31
  • @ElioFabri I guess with --enable omega.map – egreg Jan 26 '23 at 10:05
  • @UlrikeFischer I ran pdftex with an error-free tex file (peri.tex). In peri.log I read "/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map". That map file is not named in listmaps message, nor can I find "omega.map". – Elio Fabri Jan 26 '23 at 10:11
  • where is the pdftex.map that updmap-sys actually creates? – Ulrike Fischer Jan 26 '23 at 10:34
  • @UlrikeFischer I can find no pdftex.map file. In /usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/ there is a symlink to pdftex_dl14.map but it is dated feb 7 2022. – Elio Fabri Jan 26 '23 at 14:58
  • updmap-sys tells you at the begin which files it writes and where (at least it does in on windows ...). – Ulrike Fischer Jan 26 '23 at 15:09
  • @UlrikeFischer Yes, he says he will read /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg and he may write /usr/share/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg. But this file does not exist, as well as pdftex.map – Elio Fabri Jan 26 '23 at 16:59
  • show the complete output of updmap-sys – Ulrike Fischer Jan 26 '23 at 17:17
  • @UlrikeFischer It's too long for a comment. You find it in http://www.sagredo.eu/temp/updmap.msg – Elio Fabri Jan 26 '23 at 19:49
  • well you could edit your question. But obviously it is much less verbose than on windows. Try if you find an option that says more. – Ulrike Fischer Jan 26 '23 at 19:53

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