From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 41132@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 21:49:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200508014914.GA2269@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ksr1bdm.fsf@nckx>
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
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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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-08 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2020-05-08 2:25 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 19:23 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 8:59 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-08 18:08 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 22:18 ` Bengt Richter
2020-05-08 22:52 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-11 16:49 ` Bengt Richter
2020-05-17 4:05 ` Grey Seeker
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