From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: The misc font.dir file (and maybe others I haven't checked yet) supplied with the XFree86 4.1.0-15 update for Red Hat 7.2 seems to have -rw------- permissions. THIS IS A BAD THING as it may cause X to not start because it cannot find the default fixed font. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Upgrade to new X package 2.check font.dir permissions in misc form dir 3. if not world readable, watch X fail to start Actual Results: X did not start Expected Results: X should have started Additional info: My system is using RH 7,2, whuch was upgraded from 7.1....6.2
fonts.dir files are not supplied. They are created after installation. I have fixed a perm problem with this by forcing mkfontdir to set the permission explicitly to 644. I'm not sure how it could possibly be getting perms wrong now. I'll have to investigate.
Definitely is fixed in current Rawhide release 4.2.0-6.60. I don't recall the exact release these fixes went into, but I believe the latter 4.1.0 series has them as well.