Re: fontconfig-2.1.92 considered harmful

From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock_at_gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:02:11 +0200
On Tuesday 08 April 2003 15:56, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:53:52PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> > Is the problem during xclock execution or xclock compilation?
>
> 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.

I remember someone telling about those exact symptoms on IRC... after the last 
updates to Xft _before_ the updates you suspect of causing trouble. He 
eventually got rid of it by some furious recompiling of XFree & friends, but 
we never got a fix on what really broke. FWIW ...

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Regards,
	Michael Nottebrock

Received on Tue Apr 08 2003 - 22:31:01 UTC

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