These .TMP files are probably worthless to fontconfig. Every time you try to start an application that is linked to fontconfig, your app will hang until fontconfig tries to rebuild the font caches again (and fails).
You can have fc-cache operate on just one directory by doing something like: /opt/X11/bin/fc-cache -v /System/Library/Fonts or /opt/X11/bin/fc-cache -v /opt/X11/share/fonts Try this on some of the font directories that failed and see if you get a different result when you operate on just one directory. It looks like you have 480 separate directories with fonts; maybe there is something wrong with one of these directories that fontconfig doesn't like. Martin On Nov 12, 2013, at 3:25 PM, Peter Dyballa <peter_dyba...@freenet.de> wrote: > > Am 12.11.2013 um 20:45 schrieb Martin Otte: > >> I would suggest you remove all of the files in ${HOME}/.cache./fontconfig, >> and rerun fc-cache and report back what it gives. > > This seems to be a splendid idea! I have there over 6.000 files, many have > size 0, have a name part "-le64.cache-4.TMP-" – 5.622 of them! > > Deleting them from the shell fails – they're too many! In GNU Emacs' > dired-mode I can mark those following the mentioned expression and delete > them. Their names have been repeated twelve times or such, only the last six > characters (upper and lower case, and numerals too!) after the expression > were different. > > '/opt/X11/bin/fc-cache -v' produces the same failures as before. 480 files > were built, all are size 0. They are kind of doubles: > > -rw------- 1 pete admin 0 12. Nov 21:21 > 035b106883ce9b662e1f41698c2bd3c2-le64.cache-4.TMP-IokTfd > -rw------- 1 pete admin 0 12. Nov 21:20 > 035b106883ce9b662e1f41698c2bd3c2-le64.cache-4.TMP-Vvzn10 > -rw------- 1 pete admin 0 12. Nov 21:20 > 0492adeb3ebf7227d66ab13a38f42330-le64.cache-4.TMP-cXRrzV > -rw------- 1 pete admin 0 12. Nov 21:21 > 0492adeb3ebf7227d66ab13a38f42330-le64.cache-4.TMP-xcuEYn > > > -- > Mit friedvollen Grüßen > > Pete > > Nazionalismus ist die Religion der armen Schweine > > > _______________________________________________ > Xquartz-dev mailing list > Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/xquartz-dev _______________________________________________ Xquartz-dev mailing list Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/xquartz-dev