Hello,
Trying to resolve problem with gnumeric I upgrade a nice piece of system. After that I found some performers issue. I think its related to X. All start of any graphical application take ages (even Rox windows do not start immediately as it previously). The Xorg has been upgrade from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 [1]. I found only one error in Xorg: (EE) MGA(0): [drm] Failed to map DMA buffers list
Hi, not sure if it's related, anyway I had a similar problem after the update to the new fontconfig: all apps (xterm, rox, firefox) took a long time to start due to caching issues. After I rejmerged fontconfig and a run fc-cache, the problem was gone. A symptom is that running fc-cache as root shows something like "Cannot update cache". Hope it helps, Regards, Simone