Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:54:16 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to install fontconfig-2.1_2 Message-ID: <20030205225416.E512D5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "05 Feb 2003 16:29:03 EST." <1044480543.325.50.camel@gyros>
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> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > Date: 05 Feb 2003 16:29:03 -0500 > > > --=-8KMB08lkWMu+BYrdeeXg > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 16:21, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I am unable to install fontconfig on a 4.7 system. It builds and > > starts to install fine, but, when it gets to the "Generating temporary > > packing list" point, it goes into a loop that eats all available CPU in > > fc-cache.The system was built in early November. I installed this on > > an identical system and it works fine. > >=20 > > Any idea what might be happening? I'm baffled! > > Bad fonts, maybe? Do you have a recursive symlink in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts? Can you get a backtrace from the fc-cache > process? As usual, you were in the ballpark. No symlinks, but I re-built my fonts and, like magic, fontconfig installed fine. I wish I had tried this one font kit at a time so I might be able to figure out a bit more about the problem, but at least I'm off and running again. Thanks! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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