Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 72736
fonts.dir created with wrong permissions
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:46:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: After installing XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-67, X refused to restart because xfs was dying. After tail'ing /var/log/messages, I found it was having issues reading the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc fonts. So I checked the perms on fonts.dir and it was set 600. I changed it to 644, restarted xfs, and things are working again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-67 2. Restart X Additional info:
I can't reproduce this and cant see how it is possible for this to happen. I have patched mkfontdir ages ago so that it will only ever write out fonts.dir, encodings.dir mode 0666 It's been this way since before RHL 7.3. If you are using rawhide packages on a Red hat Linux 7.[012] system, and are using an older mkfontdir, this would potentially explain it. Can you reproduce this on a fresh install of Null beta? XFree86-4.1.99.2-mkfontdir-perms.patch --- xc/programs/mkfontdir/mkfontdir.c.mkfontdir-perms Mon Aug 20 10:00:57 2001 +++ xc/programs/mkfontdir/mkfontdir.c Fri Nov 2 00:52:14 2001 @@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ fprintf (file, "%s %s\n", entry->u.bitmap.fileName, entry->name.name); } fclose (file); + chmod(file, 0644); return TRUE; } @@ -235,6 +236,7 @@ fprintf(file, "%s %s%s\n", encoding->name, prefix, encoding->fileName); fclose(file); + chmod(file, 0644); return TRUE; }
Well, I'm stumped because it didn't happen this time. I don't believe I ever touched the misc directory before. I reinstalled (null) and then upgraded the XFree86* packages from rawhide. I guess things are ok now. Sorry for the bother.