Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/03/24/18:22:58
On 3/24/07, Zak Johnson wrote:
> Lev Bishop wrote:
> > With the default fontconfig install, fc-cache tries to put the caches
> > in /var/cache/fontconfig and ~/.fontconfig. Check you can write and
> > create files in those directories.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. ~/.fontconfig did not exist;
> /var/cache/fontconfig was owned and writeable by me. Just to be sure, I
> copied files into that directory successfully. I rebooted to safe mode
> and ran "rm -rf /var/cache/fontconfig" (successfully, with no errors).
> Still at the command window with nothing else running, I ran "fc-cache
> --really-force --verbose" (sorry for the long lines):
>
> /usr/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: failed to write cache
> caching, 0 fonts, 6 dirs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: failed to write cache
> caching, 398 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: failed to write cache
> caching, 47 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: failed to write cache
> caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: failed to write cache
> caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large: failed to write cache
> caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc: failed to write cache
> caching, 55 fonts, 0 dirs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util: failed to write cache
> caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> /home/zjohnson/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
> /var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
> /home/zjohnson/.fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
> fc-cache: failed
>
> fc-cache had created /var/cache/fontconfig, owned and writeable (0755)
> by me (again verified by copying files into the directory successfully).
> It sure seems like slow XFT is a symptom of some other underlying
> problem; what else can I do to diagnose?
>
> -Zak
>
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