I have made some enhancements to the xfs initscript, which are intended to fix a few bugs that have been reported, and to slightly speed up xfs startup time in some cases. In addition, fc-cache is ran always now, to ensure that all fontconfig font directories contain updated cache files, which should help improve font access times. Since this is a very fast operation, which should generally help provide runtime font performance improvements, we believe it is worthwhile doing every time xfs is restarted. We've taken special care to try and make sure there should be no regressions with these changes, however before I include this in a new Fedora development build, I would like to have as many people as possible voluntarily test the changes manually, so we can have reasonable regression testing on some systems out there before forcing the changes on everyone via rawhide. In order to test the new initscript, please follow the following steps: 1) Download my new initscript via FTP at: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/xfs.init The following steps should be done as root: 2) make a backup copy of your existing xfs initscript: cp /etc/init.d/xfs /root/ 3) Move the new xfs.init to /etc/init.d/xfs: mv xfs.init /etc/init.d/xfs 4) Restart xfs: service xfs restart NOTE: When you restart xfs while the X server is running and using it, it will break the connection between xfs and the X server, causing you to lose core fonts in X. You can either restart the X server, or you can use xset to re-add the newly restarted xfs to the font path. Something like this should work: xset +fp unix/:7100 ; xset fp rehash I'd like to hear both BAD *and* GOOD feedback from whoever tests this, so if you test it and do not notice anything different, please respond to let me know that also. If you notice any regressions with this initscript compared to the previous one you were using, please respond with full details of the problem, and exact error messages you see (if any). Also indicate if you are using only stock OS supplied fonts, or fonts you have added yourself. It'd be particularly good to hear feedback from people using lots of 3rd party fonts, as we do not normally have such fonts for testing purposes internally. Another test you might optionally want to try, is to time the old initscript, and the new one, and note any differences. To do this, try running the following command with each initscript: /usr/bin/time service xfs restart Please reply directly back to the list, so others can see your feedback as well, so if I need to respond, I don't need to respond to multiple people individually. ;o) Assuming there are no regressions (or no serious ones anyway), I want to release this in the next xorg-x11 rawhide build, so the sooner I hear feedback the better. ;) That's about it. Thanks in advance for testing.