fontconfig-2.1.92 considered harmful

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 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).
> > > > > 
> > > > > 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 config files
> > > > > for something like a circular include?
> > > > > 
> > > > Like I said, the problem goes away when I downgrade the port.
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > > The first time I ran startx, I saw an unnormal disk activity,
> > > > and that turned out to be xclock that is run by default.
> > > > 
> > > > 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,
> > > 
> > find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts -type l
> > 
> > > or an include loop in
> > > /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
> > > 
> > 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.
> 
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

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