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

[Michal Nowak]

On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst <predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com> wrote:
> On 10/22/18 09:59, Michal Nowak wrote:
>> 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 caches are out of date.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
> Hi MIchail,
> 
> yes, there is one directory, containing some files owned by root:
> $ find . -uid 0 | cut -d "/" -f 2 | sort -u
> .ccache
> 
> What is purpose of it?
> 
> Thank you for hints...
> 
> With best regards.
> Predrag Zečević
> 

In my case ~/.dconf was owner by root.

If you find it safe, you can change ownership of those files to the expected user. Then please re-try that BE.