How to reproduce: Delete global caches and ~/.fonts.cache-2: mfabian@magellan:~$ sudo rm -f /var/cache/fontconfig/* mfabian@magellan:~$ rm -f .fonts.cache* mfabian@magellan:~$ Create ~/.fonts.cache-2 again: mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-match sans hgjgbbmp.ttc: "HGPGothicB" "Regular" real 3m55.605s user 0m59.556s sys 0m2.912s mfabian@magellan:~$ Move one directory which has been added to ~/.fonts.cache-2 out of the way: mfabian@magellan:~$ sudo mv /usr/share/fonts /tmp mfabian@magellan:~$ ~/.fonts.cache-2 now contains references to a non-existing directory: mfabian@magellan:~$ fc-cat .fonts.cache-2 | grep usr/share/fonts fc-cat: printing global cache contents for dir /usr/share/fonts/wine fc-cat: printing global cache contents for dir /usr/share/fonts/bdf fc-cat: printing global cache contents for dir /usr/share/fonts mfabian@magellan:~$ Try to use a fontconfig application, e.g. "fc-match": mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-match sans セグメンテーション違反です (core dumped) real 0m16.670s user 0m0.024s sys 0m0.152s mfabian@magellan:~$ Crashes. -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig