Bug#439260: Addinfo- Iceape browser and mailnews

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:56:04PM -0400, Whit Hansell <skipper44 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Mike Hommey wrote:
>> severity 439260 important
>> tag 439260 fixed-upstream
>> merge 439260 425220
>> thanks
>>
>>   
>>> 9139  
>>> open("/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D/DejaVu-Serif-Bold-Oblique.ttf", 
>>> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>>> 9139  open("/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D/DejaVu-Serif-Oblique.ttf", 
>>> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>>>     
>>
>> For some reason, you have 2 DejaVu fonts missing. You should remove the
>> dangling links. This will solve your problem.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>   
> Mike,
> If someone had given me a multiple choice quiz and included this as an 
> answer I'd'a lost my house in the bet that they were nuts.  But I removed
>
> /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D/DejaVu-Serif-Oblique.ttf
>
> and 
> /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D/DejaVu-Serif-Bold-Oblique.ttf
>
> restarted it and tested it out and voila, that's the answer.  Thanks so 
> much.  You mention ,"for some reason they are missing", and 
> I have absolutely no idea why either.

I think you should file a bug against the ttf-dejavu package, telling
its maintainer you got dangling links for these files. I'd suggest to
also give him the result of "grep ttf-dejavu /var/log/dpkg.log".

Also check there is not problem with the installed package with "debsums
ttf-dejavu" (you may need to install the debsums package), or if you
don't want to install debsums, you can do roughly the same check with
"cd /; md5sum -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-dejavu.md5sums"

If it tells you files are missing, then there is a problem that is
probably not related to the ttf-dejavu package but rather something that
happened on your system.

> I take it I wasn't the only one who 
> had the problem.  Very happy you could get it fixed.  And when do you 
> sleep?  I only got 3 and a half hours last night.

Don't worry, I sleep very well my share. I'm just probably not in the
same timezone as you are ;)

Cheers,

Mike