[Fontconfig] broken caches

Patrick Lam plam at MIT.EDU
Mon Oct 31 17:13:07 EST 2005


Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I secured evidence of broken caches being created occasionally
> by the fontconfig mmap snapshot in Fedora Rawhide. I won't have
> time to look into the exact nature of the problem today, but
> I have put a tarball up here: 
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/mclasen/bad-caches.tar.gz 
> 
> It also contains the fonts that were used to create the caches
> on an i686 machine. The output of fc-cat looks as if the charset
> fields contain garbage.

Is it really different from the contents of fonts.cache-1, though?  Upon 
visual inspection, I didn't see that much of a difference.  I'm 
continuing to look at this problem...

pat



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