Processed: stale fontconfig cache slows FontConfig-using X client startup to a crawl
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> retitle 242664 xserver-xfree86: X clients take minutes instead of seconds to open, and CPU load goes as high as 5
Bug#242664: xserver-xfree86: [fbdev] clients take minutes instead of seconds to open, and CPU load goes as high as 5
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> retitle 249154 xserver-xfree86: many apps slow to start up after X upgrade
Bug#249154: Slow start time of many applications after X upgrade.
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> severity 242664 normal
Bug#242664: xserver-xfree86: X clients take minutes instead of seconds to open, and CPU load goes as high as 5
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> severity 249154 normal
Bug#249154: xserver-xfree86: many apps slow to start up after X upgrade
Severity set to `normal'.
> merge 242664 249154
Bug#242664: xserver-xfree86: X clients take minutes instead of seconds to open, and CPU load goes as high as 5
Bug#249154: xserver-xfree86: many apps slow to start up after X upgrade
Merged 242664 249154.
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Bug#242664: xserver-xfree86: X clients take minutes instead of seconds to open, and CPU load goes as high as 5
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Bug#249154: xserver-xfree86: many apps slow to start up after X upgrade
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> close 242664
Bug#242664: xserver-xfree86: X clients take minutes instead of seconds to open, and CPU load goes as high as 5
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Bug#249154: xserver-xfree86: many apps slow to start up after X upgrade
Bug closed, send any further explanations to simon raven <simon@nuit.ca>
> This problem is caused by the FontConfig cache getting stale.
Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.
> If there is a bug here, it is probably in one or both of:
Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.
> 1) fontconfig
Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.
> 2) font packages that fail to invoke fc-cache in their postinst scripts
Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.
> Thanks to Michel Dänzer for identifying this problem.
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