x font server startup time.

yosefm · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 23

Here's my problem:
Every time I boot in graphical mode, xfs stalls for more than a minute at the "Updating FC cache" phase. Why is that? I tried searching and googling everywhere, but all the info I get is that "xfs speeds up boot time". Well, right now it's the only thing keeping my Gentoo Linux from beating win 98 in startup time.

Does it have to update FC cache every time? Will it help to cut down on cache size? I'm pretty lost here.

Thanks!!

hw-tph · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:58 am Post subject:

Updating the font cache shouldn't take long at all. If you have literally hundreds of fonts, then yes, it's possible that it will take that long time, but not in any other case. Did you check your XFS config and verified that all the directories specified in it exist, and that all are accessible (have the correct permissions) and that you don't have any trash files stuck in those dirs?

On my 366MHz laptop, manually running fc-cache will take just a fraction of a second:

yosefm · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 23

Well, the font directories were OK. So I took a look at the xfs initscript and found that a variable called SETUP_FONTDIRS is used to see if you want to remake the font cache. Once I turned it off in /etc/conf.d/xfs it all became just peachy

Well, I'm new to this distro, I just learned something new. Another day of learning went by...

Thanks anyway!

Yosef.