Font Config, TTF-OpenSymbol and OpenOffice?
These three, and maybe Xorg, seem to not like each other...
I am running etch at the moment, with Xorg as my X server. During an
apt-get update last week or so, openoffice-org and ttf-opensymbol were
upgraded. Things started going wrong when it came to installing
openoffice-org, which was unconfigured and that was a problem. Not that
I had had a chance to run it... Could not really figure out what the
problem was. After that, during the configuration of ttf-opensymbol,
these error messages showed up:
Setting up ttf-opensymbol (2.0.4~rc3-1) ...
Updating fontconfig cache...
/usr/share/fonts: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/X11: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/X11/util: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/afms: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/latex-xft-fonts: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/type1: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: failed to write cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: failed to write cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi: failed to write cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: failed to write cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo: failed to write cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: failed to write cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: failed to write cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large: failed to write cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc: failed to write cache
/usr/local/share/fonts: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/A: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/B: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/C: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/F: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/G: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/I: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/N: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/S: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/T: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/U: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/V: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/W: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/c: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/m: failed to write cache
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/w: failed to write cache
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc: failed to write cache
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi: failed to write cache
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: failed to write cache
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: failed to write cache
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo: failed to write cache
I could reproduce these messages by running fc-cache. No idea where the
cache is that needs to be written but can't. I tried to change
permissions in /var and /etch but that didn't help. The final message of
apt-get was:
Errors were encountered while processing:
ttf-opensymbol
openoffice.org-core
python-uno
openoffice.org-writer
openoffice.org-help-en-gb
and every time I run apt-get update, it tries again to configure
ttf-opensymbols/fontconfig (and fails)
Does anyone know what this problem is? Can it be solved by manually
deleting files? Someone here describes a solution
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=35155&sid=90c8663cce0078cb81209c36e33e519e
by moving libraries from /usr/lib/ to /usr/X11R6/lib/, but those are not
the same as I have...
Any help on this would be very much appreciated!
best wishes, Alle Meije
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