2.13.9-1 exhibits the same failure to create/place the cache files for
networked homefolders on OS X (10.5.8).  I will test on anything more
current as soon as it's ready.

Thanks,

Jake

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jacob Rundall <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's not a problem for me to keep testing as I'm an administrator of two
> Mac labs with networked homefolders.  I've been away from work for a few
> days but I'll be there tomorrow morning.  I'll test with 2.13.9-1 and if
> anybody has a working link for a newer version I'll try that too.
>
> As I mentioned in the report, the .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 directory is
> created successfully, but not filled.  So I wonder if the code that creates
> the cache files is trying to reach the homefolder by a different method (ie
> assuming homefolders are only located in /Users for example).
>
> Thanks for looking into this.
>
> Jake
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Patrick McCarty <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Carl Sorensen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 12/11/09 12:00 PM, "Valentin Villenave" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Jake Rundall <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>> %% Font caching fails on OS X w/ networked homefolders,
>> >>>
>> >>> %% The .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 directory is created in the user's home
>> >>> directory,
>> >>> %% but the cache files do not show up there.  Performance is always
>> very slow
>> >>> as
>> >>> a result.
>> >>
>> >> could you try again with the latest version that's just been released?
>> >>
>> http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/web/development.html#Development
>> >>
>> >> I can't reproduce it since I don't have an OSX box; Patrick, could you
>> >> investigate when you have time?
>> >
>> > This may be a very difficult bug to reproduce, since it requires OSX
>> with
>> > "networked homefolders", which I assume means a user with a home folder
>> that
>> > resides on a network drive.
>>
>> I can only login to OSX machines with local home folders, so I don't
>> think I will be able to test this.
>>
>> -Patrick
>>
>
>
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