Re: disappearing /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir

From: Price Technology (info@price-technology.com)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 14:24:15 EDT

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Re: disappearing /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir"

    Thanks for the answer, though not in response to my question. It seems to be
    working. Just in case though, I made a copy of the "fonts.dir" file.

    Joebewan

    On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:05 pm, you wrote:
    > xfs, the X Font server, removes this file and Redhat knows about the
    > problem. chmod -w on the file will fix things.
    >
    > Dom
    >
    > On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 13:57, Bernie Dolan wrote:
    > > Greetings:
    > >
    > > I don't know why this is happening and I'm wondering if anybody else
    > > has stumbled across this problem. I've installed AbiWord 1.0.1-1
    > > (GNOME version) and the fonts and plugins for it. Everything works
    > > well as long as the machine is not rebooted. Upon reboot, the file
    > > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir is missing. I've changed
    > > permissions to 444, and still when rebooted, the file is missing.
    > >
    > > This seems to be an important file for AbiWord as it won't start
    > > without it. I can get AbiWord to start if I force the re-install of
    > > the fonts package, hence making a new file but I'm very confused why it
    > > removes this file. Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated.
    > > --
    > > Bernie Dolan JEOL USA Inc.
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    > > dolan@jeol.com Peabody, MA. 01960
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