Re: No Terminal Opening
Re: No Terminal Opening
- Subject: Re: No Terminal Opening
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:08:43 -0700
I could well be impatient -- yesterday in order to control for that,
I launched X11 and then brewed myself a cup of coffee thinking that
the several minutes ought to be enough -- it wasn't. Anyway, in
today's attempt at self control, 12 minutes ago I launched X11 and
I'm still waiting for a terminal, CPU pegged at 100% w/ X11 running
85%. Hmmm ... Is that patient enough? ;-)
That's a known kernel bug.
After that little experiment, I commented out the the parts in
startx relating to the font cache. I couldn't shut X11 down, so I
restarted -- except it kept blocking the shutdown.
So maybe it was taking a while (you were impatient) to cache fonts...
Anyway, eventually I got the system down and rebooted, clicked X11
and it started up with a terminal in less than 30 seconds. However,
when I shut X11 down and restarted, it wouldn't open a terminal and
pegged the processor. So I've rebooted again and because I still
have work to do, will stop experimenting.
What is the font cache for anyway? Is that useful only if I'm
running X apps locally -- does it do anything with respect to remote
sessions?
Both (depending on which font cache you mean) ... fontconfig is client-
side (so just apps running locally). The X server also has its own
font cache for server-provided fonts.
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