Re: font_cacher and XFree86 4.0.3

[Marko Mikulicic]

Adam Fedor wrote:

> 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.

I've tried to remove truetype fonts from the fontpath and then it works.

Marko