allfontsgen does only work by (low) chance

[verymilan]

Hi there, I wasn't sure where to put this so I'll try here first:

tl;dr:

• allfontsgen built and run in an LXC Debian 11 container no longer outputs to the fonts directory
• allfontsgen in oo directory copied over from docker out/ dir using Ubuntu 22.04 works one time only

There must be something I am not understanding correctly... please help. :)

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I have compiled the server on Debian 11, trying to update an existing installation (replaced the directory at /var/www/onlyoffice, copied new configs to /etc/onlyoffice). I then noticed that the server was now unable to find anything unter /fonts – and indeed, the directory was empty.

Running server/tools/allfontsgen as in the docs had no effect anymore. Since there is no way to make that command output anything, I have no idea what could be wrong. Copying over the old fonts dir left me with incorrectly displayed fonts in the editor.

I then copied a different compiled OnlyOffice into this installation. This one was not directly built in the affected Linux Container, but with Docker – using the official example, except with python3 only and ubuntu:22.04. Here i removed the already existing fonts directory and ... and allfontsgenworked! ... But only one single time! – after that, i was left with the same problem: no output, nothing.

Douplechecked stuff:

• permissions are correct
• trying as root not helping
• removing /sdkjs/common/AllFonts.js not helping
• no dmesg output on host, no journal output in the container
• if the documentserver is running or not makes no difference

Too scared to doublecheck:

• trying to reproduce on the prod host using the built from Docker