Re: [Devel] [BUG?] Applications segfault when accessing pcf fonts.

[Ronald Hummelink]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > At your request I have used the complete CVS HEAD tree now, which
> > doesn't make a difference either.
> >    
>
> Hmm, then we need backtraces from sources compiled with -g.  I wonder
> why you get *segfaults* at all.  I can understand if some fonts are
> missing because of the new comparison code, but segfaults?
>  
Sorry i took so long, had a busy weekend and took a while to find out 
gentoo's packager
explicitely strips the X libraries.

My rather inexperienced eye can only make this some obscure interaction 
or incompatibility between libXft.so.2 from Xorg first release and freetype.



Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer 
file:///usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1088303808 (LWP 14003)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1088303808 (LWP 14003)]
0x40ab1263 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x40ab1263 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x40037a00 in _XftReleaseFile (f=0x8139ad0) at xftfreetype.c:292
#2  0x40038db7 in XftFontOpenPattern (dpy=0x805b980, pattern=0x0) at 
xftfreetype.c:1020
#3  0x0804b169 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff3c4) at font-view.c:68
(gdb)

Probably need to pull in the Xorg guys ?

Ronald

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