From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 14:42:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DA037B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [63.246.96.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C66CE43FE1 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id RAA44549 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:43:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sumter.awod.com: User sandib [pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net] popped 26 seconds ago Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18j5Zr-0001yq-00 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:42:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:42:03 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Problems with fontconfig port Message-ID: <20030212224203.GA7236@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list References: <20030212143545.GA26905@teddy.fas.com> <1045068377.308.16.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1045068377.308.16.camel@gyros> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 17:31:42 up 24 days, 21:52, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:46:17AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 09:35, stan wrote: > > When I try to make install the fontconfig port, the make hangs foreer in > > the "creating packing list: step. I let it run ovnight, and it never > > finished. > > > > What can I do to fix this? > > You have a bad font or font path somewhere. fontconfig runs the command > fc-cache to build a font cache for use with Xft. If you have a bad font > or a symlink loop somewhere in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, you will get > this behavior. I recommend going through your fonts, and removing > anything you may have added. Thnaks. What is thsi fc-cache? It does seem to be the culprit, but I can't find a man page for it. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message