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

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 23/10/2018 15:44, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
> On 10/23/18 15:02, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> On 18/10/2018 16:59, 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 caches are out of date.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.
>>>
>>
>> For what I see from the 2483 time-sliderd truss output, it does the
>> following for each /etc/X11/fontpath.d/*/ directory:
>>....
>> Could it be that the change of the modification time (2) from 2483
>> triggers the reread by 2484 (mate-settings-daemon) ?
>> ...
>...
>
> So, font cache fails to "recognize" fonts, and just keeps system busy
> with creating cache, over and over.
> ...
> How to solve that situation?
>

Just to check that theory: Could you run the problematic BE and
switch off the time-sliderd ? After settling down, the caches
shouldn't be refreshed anymore if that assumption is correct.

Otherwise, maybe the frequency of directory checking is just too
high, given the vast amount of directories to check, which takes
a considerable amount of time ?
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