Mike FABIAN wrote: > And now the font appears to be gone: > > mfabian@magellan:~/.fonts$ fc-list : family file | grep -i zenkai > mfabian@magellan:~/.fonts$ Not only that, but .fonts.cache-2 then becomes corrupted. Interesting, eh? This seems to be the source of the cache corruption; if you run fc-cat on fonts.cache-2 at this point, you'll find that it segfaults. I added an extra FcDirScan to this codepath. I believe that this fixes the cache corruption problems. I hate to admit that I'm not entirely sure why the old code had cache corruption problems, but I'll look into that just a bit longer. It seems to make sense though. pat