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Date:      09 Apr 2003 03:49:24 -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:  <1049874564.70192.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 03:43, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:32:37PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 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, a=
nd my
> > > > -CURRENT laptop works as well. Have you checked all your font confi=
g files
> > > > 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?
> >=20
> > A freshly installed system shouldn't have such an include.  However, yo=
u
> > would find either a recursive symlink somewhere in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts,
> >=20
> find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts -type l
>=20
> > or an include loop in
> > /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
> >=20
> Attached.

In order to verify recursion, I would need to see ~/.fonts.conf and
/usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/local.conf.  If they don't exist, you're safe.

Joe

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