Hans Ecke wrote:
...
I'm still using the X Font Server xfs for fonts. Mostly because
of
inertia - always used it, has a tuned config, continue using it. But xfs
dies for me. On some fonts from xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi. Strange. The
problem is reproducible with "xlsfonts -l". So konqueror times out in
its attempt to talk with xfs.
And some other background process (upstart?) kept restarting xfs every
15 minutes because it found it dead. So my system still limped along
with an intermittently available xfs.
At this point I ran out of tuits. No fixing xfs. Instead I just disabled
xfs, instead using the buitin FontPaths catalogue /etc/X11/fontpath.d.
Now everything works fine. Bye old friend.
:) Impressive detective-work, please forgive my nvidia-related doubts.
I recall having various issues with xfs dying too back in the f8 days,
and it was never resolved... my perception being that upstream and our
maintainers didn't care all that much about it anymore (legacy,
deprecated stuff often gets that kind of treatment sadly).
Anyway, I too will give a few moments of silence (say ~ 20 seconds) for
the passing of our common old xfs comrade. Rest in peace, friend.
-- Rex