Re: x11 font problem

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:11:44PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:07:41 +0000
> Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On a NetBSD-current/i386, when I fc-list, I get far fewer fonts
> > listed than on an equivalent NetBSD-current/amd64 box. The odd thing
> > is that when running
> > 
> >   # fc-cache -vf
> > 
> > on both, the i386 box will say e.g.,
> > 
> > /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0
> > fonts, 0 dirs
> > 
> > whereas the amd64 box is rather happier with:
> > 
> > /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 212
> > fonts, 0 dirs

and just below this came:

The two 100dpi directories contain identical fonts.alias, fonts.dir, and
fonts.scale files (and appear to have the same contents) Both computers
have the same /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd and /etc/fonts/fonts.conf files.

> Maybe you have no fonts in that directory? Or perhaps permission
> problems?

maybe I shouldn't have put it in brackets.

In the meantime, another i386-current box exhibits the same symtoms, and
the contents of the working amd64 and broken i386 100dpi directories are
identical (according to diff -r).

Looking at FcDirCacheRead -> FcDirCacheScan at the moment...

Cheers,

Patrick