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Title: boot option kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys leads to font chache errors
Post by: bernhard on August 19, 2015, 07:57:08 AM

when I add the following boot options

  kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys pause

to CorePlus, I get a screen full of error Messages right after the (yellow) list of loaded extensions:

/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 8 dirs
/usr/lib/Xll/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 8 fonts, 2 dirs
/usr/lib/Xll/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 48 fonts, 8 dirs
/usr/lib/Xll/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 48 fonts, 8 dirs
/usr/local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 8 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/local/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera: caching, new cache contents: 10 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/local//lib/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/.local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/lib/X11/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 2 dirs
/usr/local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/.local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/var /cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/. cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory


just before

fc-cache: succeeded
+ echo fluxbox
+ [ -d /tmp/tcloop/fluxbox ]
+ cp -a /tmp/tcloop/fluxbox/etc/skel/.fluxbox /etc/skel/
 Done.
Setting keymap to quertz/de-latinl-nodeadkeys Done.
Setting hostname to box Done.
Boot time configuration completed. Press <Enter> to continue.


can these messages be safely ignored or what should I do to avoid them?

These Messages occur with  version 6.3, but they were also present in previous editions, where I had added the kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys to a remastered image (together with other boot options, iso= and multivt, see my small  contribution to the wiki (http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:remastering_kmap_iso)). For version 6.3 I burned the original ISO image to CD and tested it by appending the Option manually to the ISO-Linux menu.

regards
--
  Bernhard

Title: Re: boot option kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys leads to font chache errors
Post by: Juanito on August 19, 2015, 12:47:53 PM

You can ignore these messages (generated by fontconfig startup script)

Title: Re: boot option kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys leads to font chache errors
Post by: curaga on August 19, 2015, 02:45:23 PM

@Juanito

Why not redirect them in the script? I don't think the output is needed.

Title: Re: boot option kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys leads to font chache errors
Post by: gerald_clark on August 19, 2015, 06:54:13 PM

Because if for some reason NO fonts are found, you would be clueless.

Title: Re: boot option kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys leads to font chache errors
Post by: curaga on August 20, 2015, 03:34:32 AM

There's fc-list and friends for that, cache output on boot isn't the place IMHO. The cache doesn't prevent newer fonts being found, it merely speeds up accesses.

Title: Re: boot option kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys leads to font chache errors
Post by: Juanito on August 22, 2015, 06:47:19 AM

fontconfig startup script modified and extension reposted.

Title: Re: boot option kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys leads to font chache errors
Post by: bernhard on August 22, 2015, 07:35:46 AM

thanks a lot. Better than ignoring errors ...

Title: Re: boot option kmap=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys leads to font chache errors
Post by: Juanito on August 22, 2015, 08:06:40 AM

They were stdout rather than stderr but anyway...  :)