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. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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