Bug 18573

Summary:	/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs should chmod a+r, not just +r.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Geir Harald Hansen <redhat.com>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Geir Harald Hansen 2000-10-06 21:18:07 UTC

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs runs mkfontdir when needed.
It chmods only +r on fonts.dir and encodings.dir not at all.
Then it runs xfs -droppriv, which cannot read the files.

Fix:  chmod a+r fonts.dir encodings.dir

Also, the error message from xfs says that there is a bad font.  It should 
be saying that it is unable to open a file and which file that is.
(fonts.dir)

The result of this bug is that gdm keeps dying and restarting every 2 
seconds, as there is no xfs running.  Quite nasty and probably difficult 
to fix for a beginner.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-03-01 21:22:12 UTC

Thanks, fixed in rawhide.  Will appear shortly.