Re: windows fonts and fontconfig
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 00:34, Rob Adams wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the place to raise this issue, but here goes
> anyway:
>
> For a long time mozilla and galeon would crash any time I visited
> news.com.com pages the browser would crash. After a great deal of
> effort I managed to figure out that a copyright symbol displayed in the
> "MS Sans Serif" font would cause the browser to crash. This font was
> installed on my system in the form of a symlink to a windows
> installation's font folder in the fontconfig path. When I instead used
> only the .ttf files from the windows installation (and none of the .fon
> files, where the MS Sans Serif font was found), the problem vanished.
>
> I suspect that this is an issue with fontconfig or xft2, or possibly
> mozilla's use of xft2, or maybe debian's packages. Or something. Is
> this a known issue? If so, does anyone know where this bug is coming
> from? Where should I report it?
Try uninstalling mozilla-xft and see if it crashes. If not, then it is
a bug in the render extension that will be fixed in xfree86 4.3.0.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186704
Jamie Strandboge
--
Email: jstrand1@rochester.rr.com
GPG/PGP ID: 26384A3A
Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A
Reply to: