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DescriptionRichard Tollerton
2019-01-09 03:16:47 UTC
Description of problem:
liberation-fonts-common contains the fonts.dir/fonts.scale files for liberation-sans-fonts, liberation-serif-fonts, and liberation-mono-fonts. But all three packages depend on liberation-fonts-common. Moreover, liberation-mono-fonts is not part of the default RHEL8 Workstation install. The upshot is that in a default RHEL8 install, /usr/share/fonts/liberation/fonts.dir lists font paths which don't exist.
Presumably, fonts.dir/fonts.scale should be deleted, and instead be regenerated on install in the usual way.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
liberation-fonts-common-2.00.3-3.el8.noarch
How reproducible:
- Reproduces in default RHEL8 install (as long as liberation-mono-fonts is uninstalled)
- Does not *directly* reproduce on F29 because liberation-mono-fonts appears to be part of the default install there
- Does not reproduce if liberation-mono-fonts is installed, or if /usr/share/fonts/liberation/fonts.dir is regenerated
- Can be made to reproduce again by ensuring liberation-mono-fonts is uninstalled and then reinstalling or upgrading liberation-fonts-common
Steps to Reproduce: Reproduction is by visual inspection of /usr/share/fonts/liberation/fonts.dir.
Actual results: LiberationMono-*.ttf is present in fonts.dir.
Expected results: They're not.
Additional info:
This was found while investigating a crash in a third-party application, the proximate cause of which is the subject of a forthcoming bug report.
The workaround I have presently employed in the application involves omitting setting FontSet attributes for XCreateIC(). If that workaround falls through, then the severity of this issue will increase.
In current RHEL8 Workstation at least, I think Liberation Mono and Sans are installed by default but not Serif.
Anyway we should improve the handling of the X fonts.* files.
Since X applications don't typically use Liberation fonts - a simple solutions might be just to drop all the X core fonts files from the liberation-fonts.
Comment 10vishal vijayraghavan
2019-12-12 04:27:59 UTC
Build in this liberation-fonts-2.00.3-6.el8
Comment 12vishal vijayraghavan
2020-01-08 11:08:01 UTC
TPS jobs failing due to the .uuid file permission issue.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.
For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.
If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1902