morning update, using smart

[Michael Schwendt]

On 17/03/07, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Smart popped up a log window just now, after finally getting this file
> from extras on the 2nd try.  The first one timed out and I had to restart
> the update.
> ---------------------
> Output from linux-libertine-fonts-2.4.9-1.fc6 at noarch:
> /usr/share/fonts: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/default: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/dejavu-fonts: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/dejavu-lgc: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/japanese: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/japanese/misc: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/linux-libertine: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/perl: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/terminus-font: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts: failed to write cache
> error: %post(linux-libertine-fonts-2.4.9-1.fc6.noarch) scriptlet failed,
> exit status 16
> -----------------
> Does anybody have a clue?  I've seen more of this sort of thing before
> over the last month or so, but everything seemed to be working in spite
> of this.
>
> To follow the first reported error line above, and ls -l shows that
> linux-libertine is dated just a few seconds ago, and that there are now
> these files residing there:
> [root at coyote ~]# ls -l /usr/share/fonts/linux-libertine/
> total 6976
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  554164 Oct  1 05:53 LinLibertineBd.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  767916 Mar 17 03:57 LinLibertineBI.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1280024 Mar 17 03:57 LinLibertineB.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  648872 Mar 17 03:57 LinLibertineC.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  489932 Mar 17 03:57 LinLibertineI.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  346932 Oct  1 05:53 LinLibertine_It.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1284296 Mar 17 03:57 LinLibertine.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  463100 Mar 17 03:57 LinLibertineU_Bd.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  485748 Mar 17 03:57 LinLibertineU.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  758692 Oct  1 05:53 LinuxLibertine-BdIt.ttf
>
> Which to me says it succeeded, and without checking, I assume any other
> writes also succeeded.
>
> But I'm still puzzled.  What 'cache' is it talking about.

Look at

  rpm --query --scripts linux-libertine-fonts

to see what it does in its post-install and post-uninstall scripts. ;)
 Afterwards you can examine why fc-cache reported errors.