[Fontconfig] RE: Problems going from RH8 to RH9 (solution)

Keith Packard fontconfig@fontconfig.org
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:41:43 -0700


Around 9 o'clock on Apr 10, Rich Drewes wrote:

> Following up a lead from another list, I examined the permissions on the
> files in all the directories listed in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.  To my
> surprise, some of them were not world or group readable.  Nor were these
> files owned by any RPM package.  It's not clear what package put them in
> there, but when I removed them X started working again.  Joy.

Ah.  Sounds like the make install step didn't explicitly specify the modes 
for those files.  Thanks.

-keith