Creating cache files for fontconfig:takes too long!

Hello,
I am installing openSUSE 11.2 on a laptop. After installation, reboot, auto-configuration, the screen show lines of text following "Starting SuSEconfig. The latest line is “Creating cache files for fontconfig”. I don’t understand why this specific operation takes too long; since almost an hour has passed. Is there a way to speed up and complete the process so that I can login and start using openSUSE? I did try hitting the spacebar and moving the mouse but nothing happens. I have successfully installed 11.2 on a desktop PC before but never experienced something like this.

Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.

It should not take that long.

Did you check the media of the install disk? Sounds like there is corruption.