I haven't heard of this issue before. fc-list comes from the fontconfig project. It is used to get a list of all of the fonts installed on the system. It sounds like there is some bug there -- the usual culprit is that there is a slightly non-standard font installed on the system and fontconfig has a hard time parsing it. You could try updating fc-list (it's in all the major package managers).
As for a workaround from our end, we could try to set a timeout on fc-list and just skip it if it takes too long. We can't rely on it being there on a Mac at all, so already we gracefully degrade to a less thorough search for fonts when fc-list can't be found. Mike On 10/01/2013 08:15 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > I distribute a Mac application using matplotlib. > > Recent versions that use matplotlib 1.3.0 fail to run on some new > accounts. The symptoms are that the application never finishes loading > and a task named "fc-list" takes up 100% of a core -- for as long as > we've let it run (a good fraction of an hour). > > The only solution we've found is to copy ~/.matplotlib from an account > where it works to the new account. > > It is reproducible on some machines, but unfortunately not mine. When I > create a new account on my machine I do not see the problem. Thus I have > not yet been able to come up with a minimal case that shows the problem. > I'll try to get more info. > > Is this is a known issue? > > -- Russell > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel -- _ |\/|o _|_ _. _ | | \.__ __|__|_|_ _ _ ._ _ | ||(_| |(_|(/_| |_/|(_)(/_|_ |_|_)(_)(_)| | | http://www.droettboom.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
