Font error message during Cygwin update (mostly harmless)

Font error message during Cygwin update (mostly harmless)

[Duncan Roe]

Hi

When upgrading to current 5.2.1 Cygwin, this message appears in the window:

> Package: z/Perpetual
>   zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 1

The relevant lines in /var/log/setup.log.full appear to be:

> 2016/07/11 22:24:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh"
> /usr/share/fonts: failed to write cache
> 2016/07/11 22:25:30 abnormal exit: exit code=1

I got this in 32-bit and 64-bit upgrades. I added xfontsel to 64-bit; 32-bit was
a plain upgrade.

I'm using an X server on a Linux system, so can't say whether Cygwin fonts are
working or not.

Cheers ... Duncan.

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Re: Font error message during Cygwin update (mostly harmless)

[Ken Brown]

On 7/11/2016 9:55 AM, Duncan Roe wrote:
> Hi
>
> When upgrading to current 5.2.1 Cygwin, this message appears in the window:
>
>> Package: z/Perpetual
>>   zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 1
>
> The relevant lines in /var/log/setup.log.full appear to be:
>
>> 2016/07/11 22:24:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh"
>> /usr/share/fonts: failed to write cache
>> 2016/07/11 22:25:30 abnormal exit: exit code=1

This is a known issue and probably a bogus error message.  See the 
thread starting at

   https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-06/msg00189.html

Ken

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