* bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)
@ 2020-05-08 0:55 Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 1:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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0 siblings, 3 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2020-05-08 0:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 41132
I'm having trouble with Guix packages using fonts from my Debian 10
system after a core-updates merge.
Using Inkscape from core-updates, the text I put in my SVG files fails
to display. When I look at the Inkscape 'Text and Font' tool, it shows
my chosen font with a red line through it, as though it can't find it.
It's similar with Hexchat; it no longer sees most of the fonts installed
by Debian.
The specific fonts in question are the URW fonts, aka the "PostScript
fonts", provided by Debian's gsfonts and gsfonts-x11 packages.
I tried `fc-cache -rv`. Using Debian's fc-cache, it looks like this:
------
$ fc-cache -rv
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 6 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 6 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 358 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 358 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 43 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: caching, new cache contents: 92 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cMap: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cmap: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 5 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-cns1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-gb1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan2: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-korea1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/mathjax: caching, new cache contents: 24 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 8 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/anonymous-pro: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu: caching, new cache contents: 22 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/lato: caching, new cache contents: 18 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation: caching, new cache contents: 16 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vlgothic: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cMap: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cmap: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/opentype: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/type1: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/X11/util: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-cns1: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-gb1: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan1: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan2: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-korea1: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/mathjax: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/anonymous-pro: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/lato: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vlgothic: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: skipping, looped directory detected
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/leo/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/leo/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/usr/bin/fc-cache: succeeded
------
And with Guix's fc-cache:
------
$ fc-cache -rv
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 2 dirs
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 3 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs
/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/home/leo/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.local/share/fonts: failed to write cache
/home/leo/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.fonts: failed to write cache
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1: skipping, looped directory detected
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/misc: skipping, looped directory detected
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype: skipping, looped directory detected
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript: skipping, looped directory detected
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/leo/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/leo/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: failed
------
Note that fc-cache fails when using the Guix packaging of it. Also
interesting that Guix's fontconfig hard-codes the gs-fonts, but still
things do not work.
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2020-05-08 0:55 bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian) Leo Famulari
@ 2020-05-08 1:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-05-08 1:49 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 8:59 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-17 4:05 ` Grey Seeker
2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix @ 2020-05-08 1:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Famulari; +Cc: 41132
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Leo,
Leo Famulari 写道：
> I tried `fc-cache -rv`. Using Debian's fc-cache, it looks like
> this:
[...]
> /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
> And with Guix's fc-cache:
[...]
> /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
This is certainly a classic. Have you tried deleting this stale
directory? Guix System does so for you, I suppose Debian does
not. It doesn't jive with unprivileged package management.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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* bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)
2020-05-08 1:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
@ 2020-05-08 1:49 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 2:25 ` Leo Famulari
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2020-05-08 1:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice; +Cc: 41132
On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 03:08:53AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> > /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
>
> This is certainly a classic. Have you tried deleting this stale directory?
> Guix System does so for you, I suppose Debian does not. It doesn't jive
> with unprivileged package management.
Yes, it didn't make a difference for my fonts problem, or for fc-cache
itself:
------
$ fc-cache -rfv
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 2 dirs
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 3 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs
/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/home/leo/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.local/share/fonts: failed to write cache
/home/leo/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/leo/.fonts: failed to write cache
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1: skipping, looped directory detected
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/misc: skipping, looped directory detected
/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype: skipping, looped directory detected
/gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript: skipping, looped directory detected
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/home/leo/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/leo/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: failed
------
I doubt it's related to my main report, which is that things used to
"just work" to the degree that I never used fc-cache before.
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* bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)
2020-05-08 0:55 bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian) Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 1:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
@ 2020-05-08 8:59 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-08 18:08 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-17 4:05 ` Grey Seeker
2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Marius Bakke @ 2020-05-08 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Famulari, 41132
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> I'm having trouble with Guix packages using fonts from my Debian 10
> system after a core-updates merge.
>
> Using Inkscape from core-updates, the text I put in my SVG files fails
> to display. When I look at the Inkscape 'Text and Font' tool, it shows
> my chosen font with a red line through it, as though it can't find it.
> It's similar with Hexchat; it no longer sees most of the fonts installed
> by Debian.
Just to be clear, these programs are able to find fonts you have
installed through Guix, right?
> The specific fonts in question are the URW fonts, aka the "PostScript
> fonts", provided by Debian's gsfonts and gsfonts-x11 packages.
Are those the only affected fonts?
> $ fc-cache -rv
[...]
> /home/leo/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /home/leo/.local/share/fonts: failed to write cache
[...]
> /home/leo/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /home/leo/.fonts: failed to write cache
[...]
> fc-cache: failed
FWIW the new fc-cache fails for me on Guix System too if I create these
empty directories.
Can you inspect 'fc-list ' with the new and old fontconfig? Are there
differences?
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* bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)
2020-05-08 8:59 ` Marius Bakke
@ 2020-05-08 18:08 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 22:18 ` Bengt Richter
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2020-05-08 18:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marius Bakke; +Cc: 41132
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On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 10:59:46AM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Just to be clear, these programs are able to find fonts you have
> installed through Guix, right?
They can find the font packages I install with Guix, but not the
hard-coded PostScript fonts.
> > The specific fonts in question are the URW fonts, aka the "PostScript
> > fonts", provided by Debian's gsfonts and gsfonts-x11 packages.
>
> Are those the only affected fonts?
I looked more closely, and Guix applications can no longer see *any*
fonts from Debian.
> > $ fc-cache -rv
>
> [...]
>
> > /home/leo/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> > /home/leo/.local/share/fonts: failed to write cache
>
> [...]
>
> > /home/leo/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> > /home/leo/.fonts: failed to write cache
>
> [...]
>
> > fc-cache: failed
>
> FWIW the new fc-cache fails for me on Guix System too if I create these
> empty directories.
Confirmed. fc-cache exited successfully when I removed those directories.
> Can you inspect 'fc-list ' with the new and old fontconfig? Are there
> differences?
The only differences, after running `fc-cache -rfv`, are the differing
store paths of the hard-coded gs-fonts package.
Another thing I noticed is that I can do `fc-cache -rfv /usr/share/fonts
&& fc-list`, and the hundreds of fonts found in that directory are *not
shown* in fc-list, but that's the same as on the master branch.
So, I'm still not sure what the difference is.
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* bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)
2020-05-08 18:08 ` Leo Famulari
@ 2020-05-08 22:18 ` Bengt Richter
2020-05-08 22:52 ` Leo Famulari
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Bengt Richter @ 2020-05-08 22:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Famulari; +Cc: 41132
Hi Leo, et al,
On +2020-05-08 14:08:51 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 10:59:46AM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> > Just to be clear, these programs are able to find fonts you have
> > installed through Guix, right?
>
> They can find the font packages I install with Guix, but not the
> hard-coded PostScript fonts.
>
> > > The specific fonts in question are the URW fonts, aka the "PostScript
> > > fonts", provided by Debian's gsfonts and gsfonts-x11 packages.
> >
> > Are those the only affected fonts?
>
> I looked more closely, and Guix applications can no longer see *any*
> fonts from Debian.
>
> > > $ fc-cache -rv
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > /home/leo/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> > > /home/leo/.local/share/fonts: failed to write cache
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > /home/leo/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> > > /home/leo/.fonts: failed to write cache
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > fc-cache: failed
> >
> > FWIW the new fc-cache fails for me on Guix System too if I create these
> > empty directories.
>
> Confirmed. fc-cache exited successfully when I removed those directories.
>
> > Can you inspect 'fc-list ' with the new and old fontconfig? Are there
> > differences?
>
> The only differences, after running `fc-cache -rfv`, are the differing
> store paths of the hard-coded gs-fonts package.
>
> Another thing I noticed is that I can do `fc-cache -rfv /usr/share/fonts
> && fc-list`, and the hundreds of fonts found in that directory are *not
> shown* in fc-list, but that's the same as on the master branch.
>
> So, I'm still not sure what the difference is.
Didn't I just see a permissions-related bug reminiscent of this go by a short while ago?
Could it be related? Do the dir/file perms look normal?
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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* bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)
2020-05-08 22:18 ` Bengt Richter
@ 2020-05-08 22:52 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-11 16:49 ` Bengt Richter
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2020-05-08 22:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bengt Richter; +Cc: 41132
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 12:18:46AM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote:
> Didn't I just see a permissions-related bug reminiscent of this go by a short while ago?
> Could it be related? Do the dir/file perms look normal?
Upthread, Tobias pointed out that fc-cache didn't have permissions for
/var/cache/fontconfig, but deleting that didn't seem to make a
difference. Could that be what you were thinking about?
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* bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)
2020-05-08 22:52 ` Leo Famulari
@ 2020-05-11 16:49 ` Bengt Richter
0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Bengt Richter @ 2020-05-11 16:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Famulari; +Cc: 41132
Hi Leo,
On +2020-05-08 18:52:41 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 12:18:46AM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote:
> > Didn't I just see a permissions-related bug reminiscent of this go by a short while ago?
> > Could it be related? Do the dir/file perms look normal?
>
> Upthread, Tobias pointed out that fc-cache didn't have permissions for
> /var/cache/fontconfig, but deleting that didn't seem to make a
> difference. Could that be what you were thinking about?
No, I think it was about a deferred build action created as root
and bits needed for later phase or context, as non-root, were inaccessible.
Sorry for the noise.
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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* bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)
2020-05-08 0:55 bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian) Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 1:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-05-08 8:59 ` Marius Bakke
@ 2020-05-17 4:05 ` Grey Seeker
2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Grey Seeker @ 2020-05-17 4:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 41132
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I'm having the same issue in a Guix System. After a pull and reconfigure
all the fonts in Xfce are messed up. After a lot of meddling and help from
#guix IRC, it seems installing font-dejavu and running fc-cache -rv after
that "solves" the problem. I have done the guix pull and reconfigure in
multiple Guix VMs, both with "sudo -i" and normally, just in case the
underlying system is out of date and causing these issues, but they all
lead to the same situation.
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