Bug#882590: libreoffice: Fails to start with "double free or corruption (fasttop)" error
reassign 882590 libfontconfig1
found 882590 2.12.6-0.1
retitle 882590 double free or corruption
thanks
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 11:22:59PM +0100, Jonathan Ballet wrote:
> On 26/11/2017 21:12, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> >
> > so I believe it must be some Library updated or some incompatibility
> > introduced somewhere....
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=3;bug=882590;filename=loffice.script;msg=5
> >
> > looks very much font'ish. Special fonts installed? Any fonts updated?
>
> Hum, interesting. I had a custom ~/.fonts.conf which was a symlink to the
> actual configuration file in a Git repository checkout somewhere else.
>
> Removing the symlink and/or transforming the symlink into an actual hardlink
> or a "real" file makes Libreoffice work.
>
> However, having this file as a hardlink or a real file crashes some other
> applications, although they were fine with the symlink variant.
>
> I ended up removing ~/.fonts.conf in the meanwhile which seems to satisfy
> most applications.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion and sorry for the noise.
Which in turn suggests this is (lib)fontconfig misbehaving in this case,
as the bt also suggests....
There were fontconfig updates...
Regards,
Rene
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