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

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:27:02 +0000

Your bug report

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

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#36862: Root-owned /var/cache/fontconfig sometimes exists, shouldn't.
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:26:23 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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’.

Subject: Root-owned /var/cache/fontconfig sometimes exists, shouldn't.
From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
To: bug-guix <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:37:02 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Guix,

Just leaving this here so I don't forget.

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.

Kind regards,

T G-R