Bug#920357: partitionmanager and F2FS
I installed f2fs-tools and learned that formatting a usb-stick to F2FS gives the same unwanted result. A user is not permitted to write.
Bug#248235: indeed, that works
after running an upgrade on sarge/testing I had the same problems as mentioned above (kdm_greet taking approximately 1 minute to start, using 100% cpu). indeed running 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig' solved that problem and brought it back to a few seconds. It may be an idea to update the kdm postins