From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco van Hulten Subject: bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:17:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20180301221501.5e5f419e@jasniac.instanton> References: <20180228225429.09cd9fd8@jasniac.instanton> <87po4n4u2u.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erVaY-0002zZ-PZ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:18:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erVaU-0000cF-OO for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:18:06 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erVaU-0000c6-Jy for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:18:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1erVaU-0006Ek-C0 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:18:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <87po4n4u2u.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , 30655@debbugs.gnu.org Ludovic=E2=80=94 Je 1 mrt 17:52 skribis Ludovic: > Marco van Hulten skribis: >=20 > > When I follow the manual at > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.ht= ml#X11-Fonts , > > I get the message that there is something wrong with the directory I'm > > trying to add it: > > > > > > gast@graviton ~$ xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype > > xset: bad font path element (#0), possible causes are: > > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions > > Directory missing fonts.dir > > Incorrect font server address or syntax > > gast@graviton ~$ ls -l ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir=20 > > lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 84 Jan 1 1970 /home/gast/.guix-profile/share/f= onts/truetype/fonts.dir -> /gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-font= s-dir/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir > > gast@graviton ~$ xset +fp /gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-f= onts-dir/share/fonts/truetype > > > > > > The last command exits with code 0. Apparently, xset(1) does not want > > me to add symlink(2)s that point to valid directories. =20 >=20 > Would this be a good fix: More or less, but it is fonts.dir that points to the right location though we need the base dir of that, so the patch must be: diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 24db16761..35221ff94 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ To be able to use such full names for the TrueType fonts installed in your Guix profile, you need to extend the font path of the X server:=20 @example -xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype +xset +fp $(dirname $(readlink -f ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir)) @end example =20 @cindex @code{xlsfonts} The issue is apparently not really a bug but more of an obvious side effect of the security improvement of libXfont as Alex Kost pointed out. Changing the documentation as above handles this issue well. =E2=80=94Marco P.S. How do you make a patch appear as both a file *and* as text within the body of an e-mail (that's how Claws Mail presented it to me)?