[Bug 1749546] Re: Booting a live session is slow - fontconfig regenerates its font cache

[Will Cooke]

** Tags removed: rls-bb-incoming

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Title:
  Booting a live session is slow - fontconfig regenerates its font cache

Status in Fontconfig:
  Confirmed
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fontconfig source package in Bionic:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  On Bionic Ubuntu Desktop booting to a live session is slow. It takes
  roughly 2 min on my test machine to boot from the "Try or Install
  Ubuntu" boot menu to a usable session.

  It also takes 1 minute to logout and 17s to log in again.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: casper 1.388
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.388
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Feb 14 16:43:19 2018
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180214)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=C.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: casper
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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