From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 16:12:57 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 F2ED737B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:12:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [63.246.96.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E72B43F3F for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:12:54 -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 TAA28974 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:14:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sumter.awod.com: User sandib [pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net] popped 32 seconds ago Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18jTTJ-0002LJ-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:12:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:12:53 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Problems with fontconfig port Message-ID: <20030214001253.GA8783@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: 19:02:41 up 25 days, 23:23, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 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. > OK, here's the lates on this, I ran fc-cache with the -v option. The last thing it prints out before hanging is: fg-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": Cool, I thoguht thta's the direcotry with the problem. So, I went and looke at ut. Foirst, there are _no_ symlinks in thta direcotry, second, each and every file in that directory ahs a last modifed date of March 19, almost a year ago. Seem unliklye that they are the culprit. What should I check next? -- "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