On Saturday 17 March 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>That looks like none of your font cache files have been
>created/updated since Nov 9th.
This is either the day I installed FC6 on this box, on a fresh hard drive,
or the next day, see below.
>> exit status 16
>
>This only means that fc-cache had failed to write a cache file for 16
>font directories. More trouble-shooting questions:
>
>Do you have enough free space on /var currently?
/var is presently (see my recent explosion re DD) located on /, which is
an LVM2 managed volume with:
root@coyote ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
149186740 67624492 73861768 48% /
74GB of free space, I hope that's enough... :-)
>Is your system SELinux enabled? If yes, do you get any related log
>entries in /var/log/messages or /var/log/audit/audit.log?
No, I'm behind a firewall from hell, so I turned that headache off.
>Can you "touch" or create a file in /var/cache/fontconfig?
>
Yes:
[root@coyote ~]# touch /var/cache/fontconfig/test-by-gene
[root@coyote ~]# ls -l /var/cache/fontconfig
[...]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 17 20:24 test-by-gene
[...]
>Does "rpm -V fontconfig" print any odd entries?
root@coyote ~]# rpm -V fontconfig
SM5....T c /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
SM5....T /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd
.M...... /usr/share/fonts
But I'm afraid I can't decode those very well. :(
Clipped from a 'man rpm'
S file Size differs
M Mode differs (includes permissions and file type)
5 MD5 sum differs
D Device major/minor number mismatch
L readLink(2) path mismatch
U User ownership differs
G Group ownership differs
T mTime differs
Now since the first 2 files are expected to be modified, and I was playing
with chmod, the SM5 & T portions can be ignored. But whats that
lowercase 'c' trying to tell me?
But now after all this rattling around, and the stirring up of the dust of
70+ years in my attic, my ancient wet ram is finally telling me when this
first happened. It was about the next day after I'd installed FC6 on
this box, or possibly even the same day and I was going around collecting
useful things that a default install doesn't install, in this case the
msttcorefonts rpm. It was the first package I installed that reported
this error. And, we had a discussion, on *this* list, about it at the
time, and which slowly faded away into the general noise of the crowd,
without ever a fix being offered. I'd also installed a whole bunch of
fawncy cursive fonts from Goldenweb.it that I use in OOo and the gimp
occasionally, but they IIRC are in /root/.fonts, not here.
I don't know if I can find that thread, it may have fallen off the front
end of this folder in kmail. And apparently it has as I have a 90 day
expiration in effect in this folder, so once back past that, only the
stuff I'd marked as important is still there. Sorry. Is there a single
file that's dated the day of the install? That would at least give us a
date to go searching for in the gmane archives in an effort to prove I
haven't totally lost it (yet...)
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
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