Bug#904164: Text of some PDF invisible: some font thing failed

Mathias Brodala info at noctus.net
Thu Sep 6 20:36:45 BST 2018


Hi,

After the last system updates the issue has appeared again and this time
I am not able to fix it via "fc-cache -f":

> $ fc-cache -fv
> /usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 5 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/X11: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 5 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 358 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 8 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: caching, new cache contents: 89 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/cMap: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 5 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-cns1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-gb1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan2: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-korea1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 6 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ancient-scripts: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu: caching, new cache contents: 6 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation: caching, new cache contents: 16 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/type1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory
> /usr/local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /home/me/.local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
> /home/me/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 631 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/share/fonts/X11: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/cMap: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/type1: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/util: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-cns1: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-gb1: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan1: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan2: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-korea1: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ancient-scripts: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: skipping, looped directory detected
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: skipping, looped directory detected
> /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
> /home/me/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
> /home/me/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
> fc-cache: succeeded

An "fc-cat" run afterwards:

> $ fc-cat -v | grep Directory
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: No such file or directory
> /home/me/.local/share/fonts: No such file or directory
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts
> Directory: /usr/local/share/fonts
> Directory: /root/.fonts
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/X11
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/cMap
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/cmap
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/truetype
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/type1
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/X11/util
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-cns1
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-gb1
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan1
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan2
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-korea1
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ancient-scripts
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts
> Directory: /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large

Any idea what else I can do now?

Regards, Mathias



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