On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 03:08:53AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > > /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory > > This is certainly a classic. Have you tried deleting this stale directory? > Guix System does so for you, I suppose Debian does not. It doesn't jive > with unprivileged package management. Yes, it didn't make a difference for my fonts problem, or for fc-cache itself: ------ $ fc-cache -rfv /gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs /gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs /gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs /home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 2 dirs /home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 3 fonts, 0 dirs /home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs /run/current-system/profile/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory /home/leo/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /home/leo/.local/share/fonts: failed to write cache /home/leo/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /home/leo/.fonts: failed to write cache /gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1: skipping, looped directory detected /home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/misc: skipping, looped directory detected /home/leo/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype: skipping, looped directory detected /gnu/store/hbqlzgd8hcf6ndcmx7q7miqrsxb4dmkk-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript: skipping, looped directory detected /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory /home/leo/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory /home/leo/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory fc-cache: failed ------ I doubt it's related to my main report, which is that things used to "just work" to the degree that I never used fc-cache before.