[Bug 921706] ghostscript: /invalidfont in /findfont, --nostringval-- Helvetica

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921706



--- Comment #48 from Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Jerry James from comment #44)
> Since fc-cache is being run by a nonprivileged user, the new cache data is
> being written to /builddir/.cache/fontconfig.  And, after most of the
> commands above, that contains the correct directory:
> 
> strings
> /var/lib/mock/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/root/builddir/.cache/fontconfig/
> 0251a5afa6ac727a1e32b7d4d4aa7cf0-le64.cache-4
> 47zS
> /usr/share/fonts/default
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
> /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
> 
> But then ghostscript fails anyway, as though it can't see
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1.  So fc-cache sometimes fails to add
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 to the system cache after urw-fonts has been
> installed, and the fontconfig system sometimes ignores the presence of
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 in user caches when it isn't present in the
> system cache.

That sounds like another issue. does changing the order of <cachedir> in
/etc/fonts.conf help? i.e. changing

<cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>
<cachedir prefix="xdg">fontconfig</cachedir>

to:

<cachedir prefix="xdg">fontconfig</cachedir>
<cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>

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