VLC tries to build font cache every time it runs

[htroberts]

I have VLC 2.01 on OS X 10.7.3. Every time I run VLC, I get a dialog saying it's building a font cache for a minute or two before the video will play.

~/Library/Cache/fontconfig exists but is empty, even after VLC starts playing, and I have permission to write files there.

od:~$ ls -ld ~/Library/Caches/fontconfig/
drwxr-xr-x 2 heath staff 68 Apr 12 23:12 /Network/Servers/[path obscured]/Library/Caches/fontconfig/
od:~$ ls -a ~/Library/Caches/fontconfig
. ..

How can I stop this?

[whiterainbow]

I get this as well whenever I open VLC cleanly (on OS X 10.5), however when VLC crashes and reopens, it doesn't happen.

[aitte]

VLC indeed stores its fontcache in the Caches folder, so if you have an application emptying that folder, you will lose the font cache. Likewise, if you lack permissions there could be errors. Try repairing disk permissions (go into Disk Utility, select the Macintosh HD partition, and Repair Permissions). Other than that I have no idea. No problems here on 10.7.3 lion with VLC 2.0.1.

Edit: I was reading through threads for an unrelated topic, and came across this possible answer:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=98293

[htroberts]

Thanks. I can't _prove_ that nothing is emptying the directory, but I don't think there's anything that is. To me the problem appears to be that VLC isn't actually building a cache of fonts.

I do have permissions for this directory--I included the output of 'ls' in the original post to show that.

[nkoriyama]

Can you create a file to the directory?

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$ touch ~/Libarary/Caches/fontconfig/test.txt $ ls -l ~/Library/Caches/fontconfig/test.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 johndoe staff 0 4 15 07:46 /Users/johndoe/Library/Caches/fontconfig/test.txt

What is your $HOME?

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$ echo $HOME /Users/johndoe

VLC's process user is same as the owner of the directory?

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$ ls -ld ~/Library/Caches/fontconfig/ drwxr-xr-x 5 johndoe staff 170 3 22 04:27 /Users/johndoe/Library/Caches/fontconfig/ $ ps aux | grep -i vlc | grep -v grep johndoe 557 0.0 1.7 2789924 72604 ?? S 6:26AM 0:43.56 /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -psn_0_6862475

If you launch VLC from terminal with setting HOME environmental variable, how does it work?
(Please replace "[path obscured]" properly!)

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$ HOME="/Network/Servers/[path obscured]" /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC