Ana Guerrero wrote, On 14/01/07 19:45:
Hi, We (the Debian Qt/KDE team) are trying to update the bug status of some old bugs in the BTS. You filed the bug #326625 "kdebase: kdm_greet takes a long time to run due to out-of-date font-cache" some time ago, you can read the bug report at: http://bugs.debian.org/326625 We are sorry if nobody responded when you filed the bug, KDE has gotten more bugs in the past years than the maintainers could handle. We are trying to fix this now, but we need your help. So please respond to this mail and tell us if: - you are still experiencing this bug (adding in what version)- the bug was already fixed, - or if you have extra information on how reproduce this bug.
I have found that when upgrading a truetype font, occasionally fc-cache does not get run by the update process. (Today I experienced a full regeneration of my font cache after each of several font packages were updated, fc-cache -f, but that's a different bug).
kdm_greet used to take a long time to start up unless I'd previously run fc-cache. Perhaps kdm_greet needs to detect a stale font cache on start-up and call fc-cache (without the -f option) if needed, rather than whatever was taking so long? fc-cache without the -f option only takes 5 seconds of actual time to run when the font cache is up-to-date on my PII-266 with 270 Megabytes in /usr/share/fonts/*.
I have not tried to reproduce this bug recently, instead preferring to run fc-cache after every update that may involve fonts.
Regards, Arthur.
--- Thanks in advance,Ana Guerrero, on behalf of the Debian Qt/KDE team