On Monday 20 January 2003 01:10, Frederic Crozat wrote: > 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 ?
Was wondering if anything had happened with this as with cooker current of today I am still experiencing the same issue and am starting to wonder if this is going to go over into the released 9.1. Thanks for any update Serge
