bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-16 Thread Grey Seeker
I'm having the same issue in a Guix System. After a pull and reconfigure all the fonts in Xfce are messed up. After a lot of meddling and help from #guix IRC, it seems installing font-dejavu and running fc-cache -rv after that "solves" the problem. I have done the guix pull and reconfigure in multi

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-11 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi Leo, On +2020-05-08 18:52:41 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 12:18:46AM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote: > > Didn't I just see a permissions-related bug reminiscent of this go by a > > short while ago? > > Could it be related? Do the dir/file perms look normal? > > Upthread, T

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-08 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 12:18:46AM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote: > Didn't I just see a permissions-related bug reminiscent of this go by a short > while ago? > Could it be related? Do the dir/file perms look normal? Upthread, Tobias pointed out that fc-cache didn't have permissions for /var/cache/f

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-08 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi Leo, et al, On +2020-05-08 14:08:51 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 10:59:46AM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > > Just to be clear, these programs are able to find fonts you have > > installed through Guix, right? > > They can find the font packages I install with Guix, but no

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-08 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 10:25:44PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > For the sake of trying something, I'm going to try patching fontconfig > with this patch that other distros (Debian and Arch) are using: > > https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/fontconfig/-/blob/master/debian/patches/do_not_remo

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-08 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 10:59:46AM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > Just to be clear, these programs are able to find fonts you have > installed through Guix, right? They can find the font packages I install with Guix, but not the hard-coded PostScript fonts. > > The specific fonts in question are th

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-08 Thread Marius Bakke
Leo Famulari writes: > I'm having trouble with Guix packages using fonts from my Debian 10 > system after a core-updates merge. > > Using Inkscape from core-updates, the text I put in my SVG files fails > to display. When I look at the Inkscape 'Text and Font' tool, it shows > my chosen font with

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-07 Thread Leo Famulari
For the sake of trying something, I'm going to try patching fontconfig with this patch that other distros (Debian and Arch) are using: https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/fontconfig/-/blob/master/debian/patches/do_not_remove_uuid.patch I don't know how fontconfig works but that patch fixed

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 03:08:53AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > > /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory > > This is certainly a classic. Have you tried deleting this stale directory? > Guix System does so for you, I suppose Debian does not. It doesn't jive > wit

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-07 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Leo, Leo Famulari 写道: I tried `fc-cache -rv`. Using Debian's fc-cache, it looks like this: [...] /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory And with Guix's fc-cache: [...] /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory This is certainly a classic. Ha

bug#41132: [core-updates]: Fonts not working on foreign distro (Debian)

2020-05-07 Thread Leo Famulari
I'm having trouble with Guix packages using fonts from my Debian 10 system after a core-updates merge. Using Inkscape from core-updates, the text I put in my SVG files fails to display. When I look at the Inkscape 'Text and Font' tool, it shows my chosen font with a red line through it, as though