Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:14:52 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontconfig-2.1.92 considered harmful Message-ID: <20030408161452.GA41726@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <1049817897.9048.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20030408124146.GA13627@sunbay.com> <1049817897.9048.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:04:58PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 08:41, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > I have been unlucky to try to do a major update of all > > of my ports, including upgrading XFree86 to version 4.3, > > on my 5.0-CURRENT notebook. > >=20 > > The update went fine except things like xclock(1) now > > angry and eat all system memory and are eventually get > > killed due to the ``out of swap space'' bug ;-). > >=20 > > I've tracked it down to the update of fontconfig port > > to version 2.1.92. Reverting to fontconfig-2.1_7 made > > the symptoms go away. > >=20 > > This was a standard install of XFree86-4, with the > > xf86config(1) generated config file. >=20 > You're the only one that thinks 2.1.92 is worse that 2.1 :-). >=20 I don't. It just causes me trouble. > I thought > 2.1.92 was going to be a silver bullet for most of the reported font > problems. I have heard reports of this problem, but every other user > said the problem exists in 2.1 as well. I've read this whole thread, > and I'd like feedback on what das mentioned (i.e. upgrade to -CURRENT > from today and make sure it's still broken). Also, I'd like to see if > what Dan Nelson suggested works (i.e. running fc-cache -v -f as root > fixes it). >=20 OK, I will try that later today, and let you know. > If it's still broken, what LANG are you using? >=20 I tried resetting the LANG, it's no cause. > What fonts do you have installed? >=20 Just standard XFree86-4 install. > Can you setenv FC_DEBUG to 1023, then send me the output > after running xclock? >=20 Sure, I will. Thanks! Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+kvV8Ukv4P6juNwoRAtO1AJ9htR0Z2NL33FLKOSX0ynBkGLrGGgCePzFP SMjTRFsDhUHqDYLKCIFCe4Q= =2P2I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--
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