Bug#202386: Zero length truetype fonts cause setup to crash
Hi Kevin,
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:14:21AM -0400, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> This same bug exists upstream as well. I just helped someone on Mandrake that
> had the installation fail with exactly the same backtrace.
Thanks for the confirmation
> And as it turned out this font file had 0 size on his machine. I am not sure
> why (a font installation failure?)
Yes, probably. It just seems to be caused by people getting font installs
wrong on their box, but the current behaviour is a bad hard to diagnose for
uses :)
> Please file an issue upstream for gsl (or better yet: commit a patch that
> skips any font file of size 0 to setup?, or psprint?, or vcl? - (I am not
> sure). ;-)
Yes, I was planning on getting back to look at it; that's why I just threw a
quick bug and backtrace into our BTS instead of carefully putting an issue
in IZ, to make sure I don't forget the problem :)
Chris
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