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f0body

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Registered: 2020-01-30

Posts: 15

[Solved] Font cache missing fonts - needs regular update.

I am using a bitmap font under

/usr/share/fonts/misc

as a main system font. Fairly often this font goes missing from

fc-list

and I have to re-run

fc-cache -frv

in order to find it. Any ideas on how I can diagnose this?

While font is present:

~ ❯ fc-list | grep "Tamsyn"
/usr/share/fonts/misc/Tamsyn10x20b.pcf: Misc Tamsyn:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/misc/Tamsyn10x20r.pcf: Misc Tamsyn:style=Regular

While font is present:

~ ❯ fc-cache -frv
Font directories:
    /home/conor/.local/share/fonts
    /usr/local/share/fonts
    /home/conor/.fonts
    /usr/share/fonts
    /usr/share/fonts/100dpi
    /usr/share/fonts/75dpi
    /usr/share/fonts/TTF
    /usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro
    /usr/share/fonts/apple
    /usr/share/fonts/cantarell
    /usr/share/fonts/encodings
    /usr/share/fonts/gnu-free
    /usr/share/fonts/liberation
    /usr/share/fonts/misc
    /usr/share/fonts/noto
    /usr/share/fonts/tamzen
    /usr/share/fonts/util
    /usr/share/fonts/encodings/large
/home/conor/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/home/conor/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 13 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 8 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/apple: caching, new cache contents: 57 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: caching, new cache contents: 11 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/liberation: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/noto: caching, new cache contents: 614 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/tamzen: caching, new cache contents: 6 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/apple: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/liberation: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/misc: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/noto: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/tamzen: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/util: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: skipping, looped directory detected
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/username/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/username/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded

Will update with command outputs when font goes missing

Last edited by f0body (2021-08-08 19:56:07)

philo

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Registered: 2015-01-26

Posts: 275

Re: [Solved] Font cache missing fonts - needs regular update.

Re-install tamsyn-font?

Last edited by philo (2021-08-08 15:05:33)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,514

Re: [Solved] Font cache missing fonts - needs regular update.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=261208
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tamsyn-font-otb/

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f0body

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Registered: 2020-01-30

Posts: 15

Re: [Solved] Font cache missing fonts - needs regular update.

Installing the AUR OTB font seems to have done it, thanks!