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Bug#326625: marked as done (kdebase: kdm_greet takes a long time to run due to out-of-date font-cache)

Your message dated Wed, 27 May 2009 19:35:36 +0200
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and subject line KDM/PROBABLY INVALID: outdated font-cache results in slow KDM
has caused the Debian Bug report #326625,
regarding kdebase: kdm_greet takes a long time to run due to out-of-date font-cache
to be marked as done.

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Package: kdebase
Version: 4:3.3.2-1
Severity: normal


Hi, I recently noticed kdm_greet took a long time to run on startup, and 
lsof indicated that kdm_greet was looking at some TrueType font files 
(such as Code2002) for a considerable length of time.

There *may* have been due to some of the TrueType font file names ending 
in 
.TTF rather than .ttf, so I renamed them.

More likely the problem was due to the font-cache being out-of-date. I 
re-ran mkfontscale, mkfontdir and fc-cache against my TrueType fonts 
directory and the slow run of kdm_greet disappeared.

Should kdm_greet generate a warning message if it has to bypass the 
font-cache?

This may have also been a problem caused by installing 
Debian package ttf-mph-2b-damase, 
which I later removed to problems with printing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kdebase depends on:
ii  kappfinder                    4:3.3.2-1  KDE Application Finder
ii  kate                          4:3.3.2-1  KDE Advanced Text Editor
ii  kcontrol                      4:3.3.2-1  KDE Control Center
ii  kdebase-bin                   4:3.3.2-1  KDE Base (binaries)
ii  kdebase-data                  4:3.3.2-1  KDE Base (shared data)
ii  kdebase-kio-plugins           4:3.3.2-1  KDE I/O Slaves
ii  kdepasswd                     4:3.3.2-1  KDE password changer
ii  kdeprint                      4:3.3.2-1  KDE Print
ii  kdesktop                      4:3.3.2-1  KDE Desktop
ii  kfind                         4:3.3.2-1  KDE File Find Utility
ii  khelpcenter                   4:3.3.2-1  KDE Help Center
ii  kicker                        4:3.3.2-1  KDE Desktop Panel
ii  klipper                       4:3.3.2-1  KDE Clipboard
ii  kmenuedit                     4:3.3.2-1  KDE Menu Editor
ii  konqueror                     4:3.3.2-1  KDE's advanced File Manager, Web B
ii  konqueror-nsplugins           4:3.3.2-1  Netscape plugin support for Konque
ii  konsole                       4:3.3.2-1  KDE X terminal emulator
ii  kpager                        4:3.3.2-1  KDE Desktop Pager
ii  kpersonalizer                 4:3.3.2-1  KDE Personalizer
ii  ksmserver                     4:3.3.2-1  KDE Session Manager
ii  ksplash                       4:3.3.2-1  KDE Splash Screen
ii  ksysguard                     4:3.3.2-1  KDE System Guard
ii  ktip                          4:3.3.2-1  Kandalf's Useful Tips
ii  kwin                          4:3.3.2-1  KDE Window Manager
ii  libkonq4                      4:3.3.2-1  Core libraries for KDE's file mana

Versions of packages kdebase recommends:
ii  kdm                           4:3.3.2-1  KDE Display Manager
ii  xfonts-konsole                4:3.4.2-2  fonts used by the KDE's Konsole

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 4:4.2.2-1

Dear Arthur,
after reading your bug report it seems to me, that the real culprit are font
packages which don't regenerate the font cache properly. And have such packages
installed you should probably file a bug against that packages. As you can see
from the upstream bug report [0], upstream treats this kind of bugs as »invalid«
and points to the font packages too.

That said I'm now closing this bug report. If your request was only about the
warning, please consider filing a wishlist bug in upstream's bug tracker against
KDM. You should verify before that, that KDE 4.2 doesn't give a notice already.

If you should need further assistance regarding this bug report or my closing
it, please feel free to contact me.

Kind regards,
Kai Wasserbäch


[0] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55530



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