Bug 371772

Summary: kfontinst stuck process/dialog after trying to install multiple .otf fonts from Dolphin
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: NiO <arcooke>
Component: kcm_fontinstAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: jr, kde, neon-bugs, psychonaut, sitter
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.8.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description NiO 2016-10-28 01:59:58 UTC 
Apologies if this is miscategorized, I wasn't sure where to put it as there is no kfontinst category.

I ran into a number of issues trying to install fonts. I believe it has to do with being unable to properly install multiple .otf fonts at once.

These were my steps:

* Downloaded this font pack: http://www.1001fonts.com/digitalstrip-font.html
* Extracted to /home/me/Downloads
* In Dolphin, CTRL selected all 3 .OTF files
* Right Click, Install, chose to install System-wide
* After typing password, got an error message (I forgot to jot down what it said, but it basically said installation failed)
* So I tried doing it one-by-one. 
* First font said "already installed".  Second font installed successfully.  Third font, the installation dialog box with the progress bar perpetually remained on my desktop for over an hour.. unable to cancel or close. 
* Checked running processes in htop, there were two kfontinst processes stuck and I had to force kill them.

If it makes any difference (doubtful), I had Krita open in the background at the same time.
Comment 1 NiO 2016-10-28 02:03:28 UTC 
KDE Neon 5.8.2
KDE Frameworks 5.27.0
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-12-12 15:57:15 UTC 
The same also happens when doing it through the UI in System Settings. Adding or removing multiple system fonts doesn't work. It works fine for one font at a time or for user-installed fonts that don't go through KAuth.
Comment 3 NiO 2017-01-03 03:27:18 UTC 
This happened again and I can confirm now that it doesn't have anything to do with multiple fonts.  I tried to install a single font and the same issue happened.  

How can I install a font from the command line so that uses the same method as "right click>install" from Dolphin so maybe I can get it to spit out an error?
Comment 4 Tristan Miller 2017-04-03 09:45:24 UTC 
Seems to be a duplicate of Bug 361960.
Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2017-04-21 02:09:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 361960 ***