Fixed this by running fc-cache as the user. This seems broken, though... shouldn't fc-cache get run by the appropriate postinst script? and why should each user have to run it? In any case, I got it to work for me, but I think this may still need some investigation
--- Joe Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as of today, gnome2 apps are hanging for a while before starting. running > strace on them shows a bunch of font-related stuff happening, I can attach a > log if that would be helpful. I can avoid this hangup if I set GDK_USE_XFT > to > 0, but then i get ugly non-xft fonts. HOwever, if I run as root, everything > works fine, even with GDK_USE_XFT set to 1. > > any ideas? > > THanks, > Joe > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

