my font of death
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Hi Debianers,
I never thought I could bring my system into a state of total lock-up
but I can... with just one font. Everything freezes, mouse, keyboard,
screen (black with some barely perceptible patterns). Reset is the only
escape (since the keyboard is locked no ctl-alt-bksp or f1 is possible).
I'm running Debian Sarge 2.6.8-2-386-2-386 with Xfree
4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1. I need to create a custom font with phonetic
characters for an application I've built. The programming language
(Unicon) will only take xls fonts. I took a Tex ipa font (tipa) and
loaded the pfb file into fontforge (a font editor). I organised the font
according to my needs and then generated the ttf font (still using
fontforge). I installed the ttf font using the KDE font installer and it
worked perfectly. Openoffice, Abiword, everybody saw it and liked it. So
far no problem.
I now had to get the font to be recognised as an xlsfont. I followed the
Debian mini-howto http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/TT-Debian-3.html
setting up the xfs server, and then setting up the xfstt server to add
truetype support. I install the font as per instructions and it shows up
nicely with $xlsfonts. It even shows up using xfontsel and all appears
normal. The problem is that any time after that any application that
even has the font available will crash the system as described in the
first paragraph. As I said, the font works fine as long as it is not an
xls font - the catch 22 is that an xls font is what it has to be.
I hope I've given enough details so that a wiser, more experienced
fonter can show me the error of my ways.
BTW I did google trying to find out if a similar problem without
success. I see to be striking new ground in crashing X.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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