Bug#279612: Too many fonts = crash

[Josselin Mouette]

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Le jeudi 04 novembre 2004 =C3=A0 11:01 +0300, Pavel Fedin a =C3=A9crit :
> Package: gnome-session
>=20
>  I experience a problem when i install large number of TrueType fonts
> (about 300) into my system. GNOME desktop fails to start up. I log in
> via GDM, splash screen appears and the system starts doing something
> with my HDD. After a minute X restarts and i see GDM again.
>  Looks like fc-cache is called durng every startup. Probably it takes
> too long time to process all fonts and this leads to triggering some
> knind of freeze-protector which kills GMONE starter and restarts X.
>  Is there any way to disable fc-cache execution on every GNOME
> startup?

You should run fc-cache after installing your fonts, as root if you
installed them in /usr/local. This is done for font packages, but not
for fonts you install yourself.

Regards,
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