Re: [matplotlib-devel] font problems: fc-list takes up 100% of CPU and runs forever

2013-10-04 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <524c5b80.5090...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 10/02/2013 01:34 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > In article <524c130c.3020...@stsci.edu>, > > Michael Droettboom > > wrote: > > > >> I haven't heard of this issue before. > >> > >> fc-list comes from the fontconfig pro

Re: [matplotlib-devel] font problems: fc-list takes up 100% of CPU and runs forever

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 10/02/2013 01:34 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > In article <524c130c.3020...@stsci.edu>, > Michael Droettboom > wrote: > >> 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 soun

Re: [matplotlib-devel] font problems: fc-list takes up 100% of CPU and runs forever

2013-10-02 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <524c130c.3020...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > 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 i

Re: [matplotlib-devel] font problems: fc-list takes up 100% of CPU and runs forever

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Droettboom
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 fontconf