Am 18.03.2010 um 00:58 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:

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The new XQuartz 2.5.0_rc1 (xorg-server 1.7.5) shows the same behaviour. It also produces this message:

/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: failed to write cache

Odd... can you please investigate this further. What are the directory permissions there?

pete 225 /\ la -t /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1258 18 Mär 00:13 encodings drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 782 18 Mär 00:10 util drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 14144 18 Mär 00:10 misc drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3026 18 Mär 00:10 cyrillic drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2142 18 Mär 00:10 Type1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 986 18 Mär 00:10 TTF drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 986 18 Mär 00:10 OTF drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 476 18 Mär 00:10 Speedo drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 64634 18 Mär 00:10 75dpi drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 64634 18 Mär 00:10 100dpi

What are the file permissions for the cache files (ls -l /usr/X11/ lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.*)

pete 226 /\ la -t /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ | head -11 total 32216 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 165343 18 Mär 00:10 fonts.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4268 18 Mär 00:10 encodings.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2 18 Mär 00:10 fonts.scale -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 98704 18 Mär 00:09 fonts.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3066 16 Mär 05:15 fonts.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4105 16 Mär 05:11 charB08.pcf.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4380 16 Mär 05:11 charB10.pcf.gz

That file should be created by root when it runs 'font_cache -s' during startx. Try running this manually:

sudo font_cache -f -s -v

Looks OK! See: pete 227 /\ sudo /usr/X11/bin/font_cache -f -s -v Password: font_cache: Scanning system font directories to generate X11 font caches font_cache: Making fonts.dir for updated directories. font_cache: /System/Library/Fonts Unknown Type 1 weight "All" Couldn't determine weight for HelveLTMM Unknown Type 1 weight "All" Couldn't determine weight for TimesLTMM font_cache: /Library/Fonts font_cache: /Library/Fonts/Extrafonts font_cache: /Library/Fonts/Extrafonts/Bauhaus Unknown Type 1 weight "Heavy" Couldn't determine weight for Bauhaus-Heavy 001.000.pfb font_cache: /Library/Fonts/Linux Libertine font_cache: /Library/Fonts/PostScript 3 Unknown Type 1 weight "Compact" Couldn't determine weight for AntiqOliCom Unknown Type 1 weight "Poster" Couldn't determine weight for BodonPos Unknown Type 1 weight "Poster" Couldn't determine weight for BodonPosCom Unknown Type 1 weight "ExtraBold" Couldn't determine weight for CoppeThiThrBC Unknown Type 1 weight "Extra Bold" Couldn't determine weight for GillSanExtBol Unknown Type 1 weight "ExtraBold" Couldn't determine weight for GoudyExtBol font_cache: /Library/Fonts/iTunes font_cache: /Library/Fonts/urwfonts-1.41 font_cache: /usr/X11/share/fonts/100dpi font_cache: /usr/X11/share/fonts/75dpi font_cache: /usr/X11/share/fonts/OTF font_cache: /usr/X11/share/fonts/Speedo font_cache: /usr/X11/share/fonts/TTF font_cache: /usr/X11/share/fonts/Type1 font_cache: /usr/X11/share/fonts/cyrillic font_cache: /usr/X11/share/fonts/misc font_cache: /usr/X11/share/fonts/util font_cache: Updating FC cache /usr/X11/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 10 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/OTF: caching, new cache contents: 23 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/Speedo: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 23 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 29 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 59 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/share/fonts/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 10 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF: caching, new cache contents: 23 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 23 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 29 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 59 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /System/Library/Fonts: caching, new cache contents: 50 fonts, 0 dirs /Library/Fonts: caching, new cache contents: 162 fonts, 5 dirs /Library/Fonts/Extrafonts: caching, new cache contents: 248 fonts, 1 dirs /Library/Fonts/Extrafonts/Bauhaus: caching, new cache contents: 5 fonts, 0 dirs /Library/Fonts/Linux Libertine: caching, new cache contents: 7 fonts, 0 dirs /Library/Fonts/PostScript 3: caching, new cache contents: 76 fonts, 0 dirs /Library/Fonts/iTunes: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs /Library/Fonts/urwfonts-1.41: caching, new cache contents: 38 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory /usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig: invalid cache file: 2c094d1c20dbb99343a61912e63eac3a-m68k.cache-2 /usr/X11/bin/fc-cache: succeeded font_cache: Done Time spent in user mode (CPU seconds) : 41.587s Time spent in kernel mode (CPU seconds) : 11.462s Total time : 1:37.54s CPU utilisation (percentage) : 54.3% The /Library/Fonts/PostScript 3 folder has all the fonts which came with my PS3 printer, still including FFIL font suitcases. Maybe my system setup is a bit too unorthodox, leaving away all stuff for the extremely time consuming path_helper application? ~/.MacOSX/ environment.plist delivers much improved performance. The "invalid cache file" has been removed. There exists: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 58688 16. Dez 19:49 2c094d1c20dbb99343a61912e63eac3a-x86-64.cache-2 It shouldn't, on a PPC G4, should it? -- Greetings Pete Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro 6.02 x 10^23