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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 36862-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36862: Root-owned /var/cache/fontconfig sometimes exists, shouldn't.
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:26:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eesk98fk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ry7rvxt.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:37:02 +0200")

Hi!

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> Sometimes fonts break, and after a few frustrating, impotent runs of
> ‘fc-cache -rv’ you notice:
>
>  /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
>
> Deleting this stale (root-owned) directory makes fonts fun
> again. Happens about once or twice a month here.

I believe Efraim fixed it with commit
405c0c947cfd59d7bfb81052545cd635970d2d0c.

Closing!

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-18 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-30 22:37 bug#36862: Root-owned /var/cache/fontconfig sometimes exists, shouldn't Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-04-18 14:26 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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