Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx> ????????: > This is very strange, certainly there is a bug but it appears to be > not easy to reproduce. I found that I can easily by writing some random junk into ~/.fonts.cache-2. Like this: mfabian@magellan:~$ echo "hello" > .fonts.cache-2 mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-list "Luxi Sans" ; ls -l --time-style=full-iso .fonts.cache-2 Luxi Sans:style=Bold Luxi Sans:style=Regular Luxi Sans:style=Oblique Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique real 2m21.643s user 0m50.751s sys 0m3.060s -rw------- 1 mfabian suse 4564178 2005-10-20 23:51:02.000000000 +0200 .fonts.cache-2 mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-list "Luxi Sans" ; ls -l --time-style=full-iso .fonts.cache-2 Luxi Sans:style=Bold Luxi Sans:style=Regular Luxi Sans:style=Oblique Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique real 2m16.382s user 0m50.819s sys 0m2.968s -rw------- 1 mfabian suse 9127122 2005-10-20 23:53:52.000000000 +0200 .fonts.cache-2 mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-list "Luxi Sans" ; ls -l --time-style=full-iso .fonts.cache-2 Luxi Sans:style=Bold Luxi Sans:style=Regular Luxi Sans:style=Oblique Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique real 2m19.644s user 0m50.855s sys 0m3.008s -rw------- 1 mfabian suse 13690066 2005-10-21 00:29:06.000000000 +0200 .fonts.cache-2 mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-list "Luxi Sans" ; ls -l --time-style=full-iso .fonts.cache-2 Luxi Sans:style=Bold Luxi Sans:style=Regular Luxi Sans:style=Oblique Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique real 2m23.269s user 0m50.883s sys 0m3.060s -rw------- 1 mfabian suse 18253010 2005-10-21 00:57:03.000000000 +0200 .fonts.cache-2 mfabian@magellan:~$ The first call of "fc-list" should have fixed the broken ~/.fonts.cache-2 file, but apparently this didn't work, subsequent calls of "fc-list" continue to take a lot of time and the ~/.fonts.cache-2 file grows bigger and bigger with each call. -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian ?????????????
