On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 09:51 -0500, vafa at aol.com.au wrote: > the output of "ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype" is : > drwx------ 2 vafa vafa 4096 2008-11-08 20:11 TTF-fonts Another thought: I wonder how you managed to create files in /usr/share/fonts/ as user vafa. Did you fiddle with permissions in /usr/share or so?