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

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