On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:48:34 -0800, Serge Pl�ss wrote: > At 17/01/2003 10:23 AM, you wrote: >>On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:42:32 -0500, Liam Quin wrote: >> >> > Lonnie Borntreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:34, Serge Pl�ss wrote: >> >>> After "playing" a little more with it I came to >> >>> the conclusion that it doesn't matter which fonts I move around >> > >> >> Instead of rebooting, run "fc-cache -f" after each font move, before >> >> trying the program. >> > >> >> I was not able to start any of the programs until the bad font was >> >> removed. >> > >> > Like Serge, I found it didnt' matter which fonts I moved around. >> > Frederic Crozat spent some timelooking at this too. I found that >> > it depends on the *order* in which fc-cache is run... >> > >> > If you run fc-cache in /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts so it descends recursively, >> > the result is useless, programs don't run. >> > >> > If you make a change, e.g. moving a font or directory, things run. >> > E.g. I did, mv drakfonts .., to move a whole directory away. >> > >> > If you then move the directory back, and do >> > cd drakfont >> > fc-cache -f -v `pwd` >> > then everything runs, with all the fonts yuo had before. >> >>Well, I'm not able to "fix" the problem when regenerating cache using this >>method :(( >> >> > Furthermore, the cache file generated in the drakfont directory >> > is identical! Only the tiemstamp is different. >> >>In fact, there is two differents ways to generate cache in fontconfig code >>(argggg), one is used when using fc-cache, the other when starting a >>program linked with fontconfig (and when cache is not coherent..) >> >> > Ferderic suspects some code in pango, because that's where gedit dies. >> >>I don't think it is a bug in pango.. I think it is a bug in the fontconfig >>matching code, which is only used by pango.. >> >>-- >>Frederic Crozat >>MandrakeSoft > > Hi there > > yup, it is definitely not a bad font and the above method didn't help either. > What I found though is that the drakfont/ttf directory has 234 fonts in it. > I have to move like more than half of them out and then all the programs > work fine. It doesn't matter which fonts they are.
I'm not so sure of that.. If you don't want to test all those fonts yourself, could you send me a private mail with an URL for downloading a tarball of this font directory so I can test ? -- Frederic Crozat MandrakeSoft
