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

[Michal Nowak]

On 10/22/18 09:07 AM, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
> 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 caches are out of date.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

Thanks.

One last idea. Similar symptoms happened to me recently, when I had root 
permissions on some of my dot files in $(HOME). Can you check that dot 
files in $(HOME) are owned by the user?

Michal