GNU bug report logs - #36862
Root-owned /var/cache/fontconfig sometimes exists, shouldn't.

Previous Next

Package: guix;

Reported by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:38:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #10 received at 36862-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 36862-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36862: Root-owned /var/cache/fontconfig sometimes exists,
 shouldn't.
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:26:23 +0200

Hi!

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> 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’.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 112 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.