On Saturday 17 March 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>Gene Heskett writes:
>> On Saturday 17 March 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>>Michael Schwendt writes:
>>>> On 17/03/07, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>> [root@coyote ~]# /usr/bin/fc-cache /usr/share/fonts
>>>>> /usr/share/fonts: failed to write cache
>>>>> /usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts: failed to write cache
>>>>
>>>> Are all those directories writable?
>>>
>>>All directories are writable by root.
>>>
>>>If these directories exist, check /var/log/messages for disk errors,
>>> then allocate some time for a brick replacement.
>>
>> With a chmod -R 0777 /usr/share/fonts in effect, Sam, I'd certainly
>> think so.
>>
>> And the log is totally bereft of any usefull clues:
>
>Then the next step would be "strace -o strace.log -s 256 -f -F
>/usr/bin/fc-cache /usr/share/fonts".
I did this, then searched the strace.log for mentions of cache, as
in /var/cache. There is none, all mentions of cache are in the error
strings it printing, except for this one:
24952 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
the next hit starts here:
24952 open("/usr/share/fonts", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|
O_DIRECTORY) = 3
24952 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
24952 getdents(3, /* 13 entries */, 4096) = 292
24952 getdents(3, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/default", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-fonts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-lgc", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/japanese", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/linux-libertine", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/perl", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/terminus-font", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 close(3) = 0
24952 stat64("/usr/share/fonts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
24952 write(2, "/usr/share/fonts: failed to write cache\n", 40) = 40
With a few exceptions, all the hits on 'cache' look quite similar.
Thanks for any advice that might fix this, everybody.
--
Cheers, Gene
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