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Date:      08 Apr 2003 13:32:37 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fontconfig-2.1.92 considered harmful
Message-ID:  <1049823157.360.1.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20030408140716.GA25511@sunbay.com>
References:  <20030408132730.GD19391@sunbay.com> <200304081553.52781.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> <20030408135611.GB23660@sunbay.com> <20030408095850.K77443@volatile.chemikals.org> <20030408140716.GA25511@sunbay.com>

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On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 10:07, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:00:32AM -0400, Wesley Morgan wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >=20
> > > At runtime.  When I run xclock under truss(1), it shows the
> > > paths to the fonts, and never stops doing it, eventually
> > > eating all memory and being killed by kernel.  The same
> > > thing happens when I say run mozilla (also upgraded from
> > > fresh ports).
> >=20
> > I've got a -STABLE system running fine with all the latest ports, and m=
y
> > -CURRENT laptop works as well. Have you checked all your font config fi=
les
> > for something like a circular include?
> >=20
> Like I said, the problem goes away when I downgrade the port.
>=20
> I don't know too much about font config files and never edited
> them manually; I've just started afresh, removed all of my
> ports and some garbage that was left, updated the ports tree
> and reinstalled the ports I need, including XFree86-4.
>=20
> The first time I ran startx, I saw an unnormal disk activity,
> and that turned out to be xclock that is run by default.
>=20
> Where do I go to check for this circular include you mention?

A freshly installed system shouldn't have such an include.  However, you
would find either a recursive symlink somewhere in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, or an include loop in
/usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.

Joe

>=20
>=20
> Cheers,
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