Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:59:43 +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: <20030409075943.GD34134@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030409075115.GB34134@sunbay.com> References: <20030408173003.84783.qmail@web11404.mail.yahoo.com> <1049824834.360.17.camel@gyros> <20030409075115.GB34134@sunbay.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:51:15AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:00:34PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 13:30, Shizuka Kudo wrote: > > > --- Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:46:39PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote: > > > > > I had this bug, but now it is over...It has been fixed. Do a CVSUP and all > > > > > should now be ok. > > > > > > > > > No. This is with the latest port. Where specifically it > > > > was fixed? > > > > > > > > > > The exact cvs message is as follows. Having you tried 'fc-cache -f' to rebuild font cache as root > > > in a text console and delete the fontcache in your home directory (This solved my problem when > > > starting a KDE session)? > > > > But Ruslan is reporting the bug in 2.1.92 which incorporates this fix. > > Besides, what Ruslan is seeing is a different crash. I'm wondering if > > it is indeed an issue with not having enough memory. All my machines > > have at least 512 MB of RAM, and I've never encountered this error. > > Anyone have a machine with < 200 MB of RAM and is _not_ having a problem > > with fontconfig? > > > Hmm, I initially didn't notice this, because it was a batched install > of XFree86-4. Now that I try to manually reinstall the port, it says: > > ===> Generating temporary packing list > Running fc-cache to build fontconfig cache... > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 13 dirs > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi": caching, 397 fonts, 0 dirs > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": Killed > *** Error code 137 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig. > > Apr 9 10:46:14 lurker kernel: pid 6636 (fc-cache), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > > Where do I look for a fix? > Okie dokie. I've worked around this by stopping all applications. While running, this fc-cache has eaten almost all of my memory. My machine has 128M RAM and 128M swap. It sure looks like a memory leak issue. Cheers, -- 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+k9LvUkv4P6juNwoRAgoKAJ42kF175dT2un2B/hKPeEGVJhxjTwCeLsLq zzxRxS0kNB+Ix4cdUarQ8s0= =Zjmg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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