Subject: Re: bug#36862: Root-owned /var/cache/fontconfig sometimes exists, shouldn't.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:26:23 +0200

Hi!

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]> 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’.