Comment # 6 on bug 1086804 from Marguerite Su

(In reply to Thorsten Kukuk from comment #5)
> (In reply to Marguerite Su from comment #4)
> This usual happens, if you do automatic updates from a systemd service, e.g.
> a timer.
> systemd service is calling directly zypper up/dup, which installs the RPM,
> which runs fonts��config in the post-install.
> Or systemd service is calling a script, which calls zypper, ...
> 
> Or something like salt is calling zypper.
> 
> Or you boot by DVD to update the system with YaST.
> 
> So every time zypper is not called by an user/admin on the commandline,
> there is no HOME set.

Ha,

I understand zypper can be called by anything, but zypper and fonts-config
are tied up via fontpackages���s %reconfigure_fonts macro, which calls 
���fonts-config -quiet������ that is system mode not user mode, HOME stuff shouldn���t 
be called at all.