Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:52:49 +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: <20030409075249.GC34134@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <1049874564.70192.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.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> <1049823157.360.1.camel@gyros> <20030409074342.GA34134@sunbay.com> <1049874564.70192.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 03:49:24AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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,= and my > > > > > -CURRENT laptop works as well. Have you checked all your font con= fig 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, = you > > > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 ls: /home/ru/.fonts.conf: No such file or directory ls: /root/.fonts.conf: No such file or directory ls: /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/local.conf: No such file or directory Please see my other email. 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 --KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+k9FRUkv4P6juNwoRAtE5AJ9xAN3z61KmG9CSKKNiRzBonrKi5gCghxxT +E74ZQCjp9iKFtzGLSKVvAo= =tEZD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI--
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