Bug#234535: xserver dies if I start gimp with LANG=no_NO.UTF-8
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:04, Helge Hafting wrote:
[...] the debug server froze my machine to the point where even sysrq+B
(instant boot) didn't work. I tried a couple of times, using synchronous
mounts to limit the filesystem damage. I managed to open an xterm and
type "gimp", but the machine froze before I had time to hit enter. (The
suddenly nonblinking cursor still sat at the end of line)
Before, I have only seen this sort of freezing when trying to use DRI
on this particular machine. I didn't enable DRI this time though,
XF886Config-4 was unchanged.
The XFree86-debug server is non-modular, so the XF86Config-4 Module
section doesn't apply. As the radeon driver doesn't provide an option to
disable the DRI yet (this will be fixed in DRI CVS), the only way to
disable the DRI is probably to prevent the DRM (radeon kernel module)
from loading.
My kernel is non-modular too. I can of course make another kernel,
if this problem still interest you.
I normally use both xfs and xfstt.
Why? xfs has supported TrueType fonts for a while.
It didn't support truetype in an easy way when I set this up.
Perhaps it is time to switch to xfs only then. Thanks for the tip.
Without them I had fewer fonts, but gimp ran with LANG=no_NO-UTF8. The
nonascii characters were all wrong though. Don't know if that is the
result of some bug, or that gimp1.2 doesn't support that locale yet?
BTW, have you tried gimp 2.0.x? It supports client side fonts via
GTK2/Pango/Xft, which will avoid server-side font issues, and be
anti-aliased as a bonus. :)
I have tried it. gimp1.2 was only an example though. Many other
programs causes X to crash the same way - dillo and digikam for example.
I don't know if xfstt does something wrong, but X shouldn't really crash
even if xfstt is wrong. One cannot trust font servers to be nice - they may be external
after all.
True, but if it only happens with xfstt, there might be little incentive
to fix this.
Sure, if an obsolete xfstt is the only problem server.
Helge Hafting
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