Yum upgrade damage 3 of my systems yesterday

[Mogens Kjaer]

Julian Rios wrote:
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> 5. I desesperate !
...
>> # xfs
>>     many of errors indicating: ignoring font path element (bad font path
>>     desciptor)
>>     ignoring /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc (bad font path desciptor)

What happens if you run xfs manually with strace (as root)?

strace -o/tmp/panic1 /usr/bin/xfs -droppriv

Open /tmp/panic1 in an editor and search for "misc".

I get something like:

...
open("/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir", O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=22455, ...}) = 0
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=22455, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
0) = 0xb7fc9000
read(4, "284\n10x20-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -misc"..., 4096) = 4096
read(4, "-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-7"..., 4096) = 4096
read(4, "7x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz -misc-fix"..., 4096) = 4096
read(4, "gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--"..., 4096) = 4096
read(4, "100-100-c-90-iso8859-1\n9x18B-ISO"..., 4096) = 4096

What does:

ls -l /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir

print out?

Mogens
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