On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:55:48 +0100, Alle Meije Wink wrote:
> 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
[ snip: the same message for the other font directories ]
> 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)
Try to run
fc-cache -v
as root. That way it should list which directories it is trying to
access. That might give us a clue what is wrong.
Another thing which might be important is the status of your fontconfig
packages. What is the output of "dpkg -l fontconfig\*"?
(The problem is clearly ttf-opensymbol. The other packages cannot be
configured because they depend, directly or indirectly, on
ttf-opensymbol being installed and configured.)
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Regards,
Florian
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