Re: Bug: font caching on OS X w/ networked home folders

[Jacob Rundall]

I've just checked this issue on the latest stable (2.12.3-1) and the latest
development version (2.13.10-1) and it still exists.

Please advise when I should test again.

Thanks,

Jake

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jacob Rundall <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2.13.9-1 exhibits the same failure to create/place the cache files for
> networked homefolders on OS X (10.5.8).  I will test on anything more
> current as soon as it's ready.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jake
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jacob Rundall <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> It's not a problem for me to keep testing as I'm an administrator of two
>> Mac labs with networked homefolders.  I've been away from work for a few
>> days but I'll be there tomorrow morning.  I'll test with 2.13.9-1 and if
>> anybody has a working link for a newer version I'll try that too.
>>
>> As I mentioned in the report, the .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 directory is
>> created successfully, but not filled.  So I wonder if the code that creates
>> the cache files is trying to reach the homefolder by a different method (ie
>> assuming homefolders are only located in /Users for example).
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this.
>>
>> Jake
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Patrick McCarty <address@hidden>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On 12/11/09 12:00 PM, "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Jake Rundall <address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>> %% Font caching fails on OS X w/ networked homefolders,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> %% The .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 directory is created in the user's
>>> home
>>> >>> directory,
>>> >>> %% but the cache files do not show up there.  Performance is always
>>> very slow
>>> >>> as
>>> >>> a result.
>>> >>
>>> >> could you try again with the latest version that's just been released?
>>> >>
>>> http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/web/development.html#Development
>>> >>
>>> >> I can't reproduce it since I don't have an OSX box; Patrick, could you
>>> >> investigate when you have time?
>>> >
>>> > This may be a very difficult bug to reproduce, since it requires OSX
>>> with
>>> > "networked homefolders", which I assume means a user with a home folder
>>> that
>>> > resides on a network drive.
>>>
>>> I can only login to OSX machines with local home folders, so I don't
>>> think I will be able to test this.
>>>
>>> -Patrick
>>>
>>
>>
>