SOS!!! Font Manager Destroyed a complete Linux Mint System!! about font-manager

[cptX]

OK something is wrong in my system although I have the GUI back. Everything now loads really slow!
Also when I run the command "sudo fc-cache -f -v" it is scanning all the existing folders in my system. This is not a normal behavior as it should scan only the font folders in my system. Of course "sudo fc-cache -f -v" never ends as it scans infinite number of folders. It looks like somewhere in the system there are declared as font folders thousand of the system folders and both font-manager and sudo fc-cache -f -v are searching for them. Probably a bug in font-manager sets as font-folders all the folders of the system!!!!!!!!

Where should I look for the folder declaration for fonts?

[cptX]

Folder /var/cache/fontconfig has 11424 files!!!!
I thought there should be only 1 cache file per font. So this looks like a result of a font-manager bug.

I ran "sudo fc-cache -r -v" and instead of deleting them it started generating more!
So the hanging of the system is that somewhere font-manager declared as fonts folders all the existing folders of the system!!!!!!!!!!
In which file did it do this setting? I need to revert it!!!!!

[cptX]

OK I found the bug:
Font manager created the file ~/.fonts.conf
in this file it is referencing .config/font-manager/directories.conf
in directories.conf is referencing the home folder so it was scanning the whole home folder creating 30.000 cache files in the font cache folders.

[JerryCasiano]

You're using an extremely outdated version of the application.

It's been deprecated for years...

[cptX]

It's not that I'm using an outdated version. It's that Ubuntu Repositories give this version.
So it's not my mistake!! Please remove it from Ubuntu Repositories then. Why are you closing this?
This can destroy peoples computers and work, as it did to me!!!

[cptX]

I'm going to escalate this. It's now clear to me why this application is causing such a trouble. It's obvious by the lack of responsibility of it's maintainers!

[JerryCasiano]

It's not that I'm using an outdated version. It's that Ubuntu Repositories give this version

Aside from the fact that Ubuntu carries the updated version, what the Ubuntu repository or any other repository does is not my concern.

I'm going to escalate this. It's now clear to me why this application is causing such a trouble. It's obvious by the lack of responsibility of it's maintainers!

Oh no. Please don't "escalate" this.
I don't want to get fired from my hobby project that I give away freely.

You're obviously clueless or a troll.

Either way, you can go fuck yourself

[JerryCasiano]

Why are you closing this?

You know what? You're right.

I should keep this open as a perfect example of how not to interact with open source projects.