morning update, using smart

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 17 March 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>On 17/03/07, Gene Heskett  wrote:
>> On Saturday 17 March 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> >Michael Schwendt writes:
>> >> On 17/03/07, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >>> [root at 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
>
>Okay, run "fc-cache -v /usr/share/fonts" and check for availability
>and permissions on  /var/cache/fontconfig/
/var/cache/fontconfig has these perms

drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root     4096 Nov  9 08:41 fontconfig

and contains:
[root at coyote ~]# ls -l /var/cache/fontconfig
total 244
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   160 Nov  9 08:29 0251a5afa6ac727a1e32b7d4d4aa7cf0-x86.cache-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64328 Nov  9 08:41 1e88f1f1e0efe03f58dd40df4dd7a0ea-x86.cache-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   216 Nov  9 08:35 3830d5c3ddfd5cd38a049b759396e72e-x86.cache-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20544 Nov  9 08:35 7ddba6133ef499da58de5e8c586d3b75-x86.cache-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5120 Nov  9 08:26 87f5e051180a7a75f16eb6fe7dbd3749-x86.cache-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22832 Nov  9 08:29 b79f3aaa7d385a141ab53ec885cc22a8-x86.cache-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18288 Nov  9 08:41 beeeeb3dfe132a8a0633a017c99ce0c0-x86.cache-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8576 Nov  9 08:41 d04038e664b0033ae700a78c51f179d3-x86.cache-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32152 Nov  9 08:35 e19de935dec46bbf3ed114ee4965548a-x86.cache-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7176 Nov  9 08:33 e3ead4b767b8819993a6fa3ae306afa9-x86.cache-2

Should I do a chown -R on that tree also?

-- 
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