[OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.20 and updated GTK+3 for hipster

[Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst]

On 10/19/18 18:01, Michal Nowak wrote:
> On 10/18/18 04:59 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 10/18/18 05:55 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>>> This is strange, why in the world should the settings-daemon
>>> read the fontpathes in an infinite loop ? Looks like its constantly
>>> thinking the mate font configuration has changed.
>>
>> I don't know about infinite loop, but you'll see libfontconfig iterating
>> through all the fonts in all the directories when it thinks its font
>> caches are out of date.   On Solarish systems, we have an SMF service
>> svc:/application/font/fc-cache to ensure the caches are up-to-date at
>> system boot and when IPS packages with fonts are installed, so it would
>> be good to check that's running and not reporting any errors in the SMF
>> logs for it.
>>
> 
> At the very same time we updated MATE we also bumped fontconfig to 
> 2.13.1 (https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/4494). Aurélien, 
> any ideas?
> 
> Predrag, do you have fontconfig 2.13.1? And by a chance can you check 
> that you don't have a symlink loop from /usr/share/fonts to 
> /etc/X11/fontpath.d or something like that?
> 
Hi Michal,

$ beadm list oi_181018
BE        Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created
oi_181018 -      -     3,85G static 2018-10-18 11:30

$ beadm mount oi_181018 /beadm
Mounted successfully on: '/beadm'

$ pkg -R /beadm list fontconfig
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION 
     IFO
system/library/fontconfig                         2.13.1-2018.0.0.1 
     i--

$ ls -hlad /beadm/usr/share/fonts/ /beadm/etc/X11/fontpath.d/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 93 Jan 11  2017 /beadm/etc/X11/fontpath.d/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin   5 Jan  8  2016 /beadm/usr/share/fonts/

With best regards.
Predrag Zečević

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