From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 9:25:16 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 8F5C937B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:25:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.uits.uconn.edu (mail1.uits.uconn.edu [137.99.25.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2DA43F3F for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:25:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@forsetti.com) Received: from [137.99.80.149] (d80h149.public.uconn.edu [137.99.80.149]) by mail1.uits.uconn.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1DHOrI01580; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:24:53 -0500 Subject: Re: fc-cache problem From: Matt Smith To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: stan , Free BSD Questions list In-Reply-To: <1045155638.308.23.camel@gyros> References: <20030213135915.GA25462@teddy.fas.com> <1045155638.308.23.camel@gyros> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1045157090.91136.17.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 13 Feb 2003 12:24:50 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1, required 6, AWL, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE, SPAM_PHRASE_02_03) 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 Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:14, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 08:59, stan wrote: > > After a long trail of tears, during which I received significant help from > > various kind members of this list. I have discovered the underlying cause > > (I'm fairly certain) of my inoperan;e Galeon/Mozilla binaries. > > > > It turns out that something called fc-cache is apparently getting into a > > infinite loop. > > > > The bad news is that I can't find any man page, or other documentation on > > what this program does, and how to use it. I'm looking for something like a > > -v option, so I can try to diagnose where it's looping. It's provide any > > the fontconfig port, which is a dependency for both Mozilla, and Galeon, > > among others, so I can't just delete this port. > > It has a -v option: > > # fc-cache -v > > Joe > > > > > Pointers to docs appreciated. fc-cache -? usage: fc-cache [-fvV?] [--force] [--verbose] [--version] [--help] [dirs] Build font information caches in [dirs] (all directories in font configuration by default). -f, --force scan directories with apparently valid caches -v, --verbose display status information while busy -V, --version display font config version and exit -?, --help display this help and exit -- Matt Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message