Frederic Crozat wrote: > Good, I'll test it later this week. I knew about realpath ugliness but I > couldn't figure a good way to replace it (too bad fontconfig doesn't use > glib ;) The patch I committed earlier was slightly broken, but I think I've fixed it now. >>>-in some directories containing only ttf fonts, running fc-cache -v >>>again and again always regenerate the cache (which is strange, since the >>>directory was not modified at all). >>>-this last bug is causing huge delays when starting applications for the >>>first time after running fc-cache as root, since cache is detected as >>>dirty and fontconfig regenerates it for the user (and on my test system, >>>I have two big chinese fonts of 20MB and 16MB ...). >> >>Do you have any more hints on when these problems occur? > > Those two patches are no longer reproducible after removing all files > in /var/cache/fontconfig and re-running fc-cache with my "realpath" > patch. I guess old broken cache where causing this. People which were > reporting similar issues on cooker confirmed it fixed it. > > I guess your similar fix will have a similar effect. Actually, I figured out what caused this: the directory cache contains the absolute path, but fc-cache . will try to open a cache for path '.', which fails. This works now. pat _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig