[Bug 378011] New: Fontconfig cannot create caches as if system time is incorrect

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Summary: Fontconfig cannot create caches as if system time is
                    incorrect
           Product: Fedora
           Version: f7
          Platform: All
               URL: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1525
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: low
          Priority: low
         Component: fontconfig
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

Description of problem:
At OLPC, we have come across a bug where fontconfig is unable to create caches
if the system time is set to something which is older than the directory mtime.
The issue is fixed upstream and we backported the patch to be applicable to
fontconfig-2.4.2 as well. The patch is available at
http://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/1525/mtime_fix.patch

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fontconfig-2.4.2-3.fc7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:

I set my RTC of the XO to 1999, flashed the OS, tried fc-cache - it did not work
and Browse activity, once started, hogged 100% of CPU.

[Bug 378011] Fontconfig cannot create caches if system time is incorrect

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Summary: Fontconfig cannot create caches if system time is incorrect

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378011

[e-mail] changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Fontconfig cannot create    |Fontconfig cannot create
                   |caches as if system time is |caches if system time is
                   |incorrect                   |incorrect

[Bug 378011] Fontconfig cannot create caches if system time is incorrect

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Summary: Fontconfig cannot create caches if system time is incorrect

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378011

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            Version|f7                          |7

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                 CC|                            |fedora-triage-
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[Bug 378011] Fontconfig cannot create caches if system time is incorrect

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Summary: Fontconfig cannot create caches if system time is incorrect

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378011

[e-mail] changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-16 22:51 EST -------
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we 
are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version 
of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.