On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:46, Clayton wrote:
Well, if you want to stay with fontconfig-2.3.91 you have to run fc-cache -f after installing fonts, as there is some bug in fontconfig. Its symptom is crashing every X application. As far as I know, OpenOffice 2.0 installs some fonts, therefore you should run fc-cache afterwords.
Ahhh... that would explain why everyone is having problems with the latest fontconfig update from apt. Not knowing that you should run fc-cache is a HUGE handicap though. There will be a lot of people with broken GUIs in the next couple of days. :-(
Can't this fc-cache -f be included as part of the RPM the same way config is done when you install a kernel RPM? Wonder if the maintainer of fontconfig could add that in? (I don't know enough about how RPMs work to know if this is possible... just asking)
Adding workarounds usually leads to the fact that the bug never gets fixed, so we avoid this usually and better keep the bug visible. fc-cache -f would also increase the runtime of SuSEconfig.fonts heavily. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de