Bug#220448: xserver-xfree86: Some fonts simply don't show up, adobe courier for example

[Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> writes:

> Hi Gregory,
> 
> About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding some
> fonts not showing up.
> Did you reproduce this problem recently? If not, I will close this bug
> in the next weeks.

I tracked the problem down to some invalid font files. So the bug report
should be updated to reflect a lack of error handling in font file parsing. It
seems if you have corrupt font files it just doesn't display anything rather
than reporting any errors and removing those fonts from the set of fonts
available.

-- 
greg