Re: font_cacher and XFree86 4.0.3

[Adam Fedor]

Marko Mikulicic wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My xfs crashes after a few hundreds of font entries the font_cacher
> tries to build.
>
> I tried to disable the xfs and move the FontPaths directly in Xfree 
> configs, with the result that now the X server crashes.
>
> Probably this is not a gnustep bug, I was just wondering if
> someone has the same problem.
>
> It's murphy's law; I choosed gnustep to do database solution for a 
> little company, and after all running well, a few days from now
> all gone kaputt :-)
> (I tryed, on several machines including mdk 8.0 (XFree 4.0.3), mdk 7.2
> (Xfree 4.0.1) , gcc 2.95.3, gcc 2.96, gcc 3.0 (mdk 8.0))
>
> Marko

There was a problem reported with XFree86 4.0.1 regarding this, but I 
thought it was fixed in later versions. Perhaps it would be nice to make 
font_cacher more forgiving on the X server.


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