From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 9:54:36 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 8A4E737B405 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:54:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [63.246.96.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B51543FBD for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:54:30 -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 MAA94249 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:55:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sumter.awod.com: User stanb [pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net] popped 108 seconds ago Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18jNZ6-0008Ji-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:54:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:54:28 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: fc-cache problem Message-ID: <20030213175428.GB31834@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list References: <20030213135915.GA25462@teddy.fas.com> <1045155638.308.23.camel@gyros> <1045157090.91136.17.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1045157090.91136.17.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 12:51:48 up 25 days, 17:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 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 Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:24:50PM -0500, Matt Smith wrote: > 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 > Thnaks, that helps! -- "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