I did not get your original reply right away because I opted to receive posts in Digest format. Yes, by removing that parameter, the command worked. For nearly 40 seconds, a long list of fonts scrolled past. It did not hang anywhere, i.e., there was a normal completion returning me to the command line. -----Original Message----- From: Owen Taylor [mailto:otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:54 PM To: jonathan.w.smith@xxxxxxx Cc: fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Problems going from RH8 to RH9 On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 09:45, Jonathan W. Smith wrote: > I deleted local.conf and tried running 'strace -e open -e fc-cache -f'. I > get an error message: invalid system call 'fc-cache' Try it without the second -e. (Typo on my part, sorry.) Regards, Owen > -----Original Message----- > From: Owen Taylor [mailto:otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 7:36 PM > To: fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: jonathan.w.smith@xxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Re: Problems going from RH8 to RH9 > > > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 19:28, Jonathan W. Smith wrote: > > Luckily, I was browsing the archives, searching for a possible answer to > my > > problem, when I came across your reply to my inquiry. There was no way for > a > > member to reply while browsing the archives, so I created this email as if > I > > had received your response via email and was replying to it. > > Sorry, forgot to Cc: you last time. > > > How long should it take after 'fc-cache -f' to finish running? I have let > > the machine sit for three hours and it has yet to come back to a command > > line prompt. Something similar happened previously, I tried running > > 'redhat-config-xfree86' after creating a local.conf. It started merrily > off > > as if great things would happen, yet never came back to the command line > > prompt. I finally cancelled. > > > > I guess I should cancel this effort; delete the local.conf that I created; > > and, try running 'fc-cache -f' again. > > Yeah, using the stock fonts.conf would remove a variable. I would > recommend it. > > fc-cache should take a couple of minutes, no more. If you have thousands > of fonts from Word Perfect, maybe 5-10 minutes. > > If takes longer than that, I'd run the command as: > > strace -e open -e fc-cache -f > > And see what font file it hangs on. > > > I am unsure how to answer your question about fonts, other than what > shipped > > with RH9. As previously stated, this was an attempt to go from RH8 to RH9. > > There were programs, other than what shipped with RH8 on my machine, that > > installed fonts, e.g., Corel Word Perfect and Sun Star Office. So I would > > assume that the answer to your question is "Yes". > > Depends on _where_ these fonts were installed. If they aren't in > fontconfig's directories, then they don't matter. But probably yes. > > Regards, > Owen > >
