Re: [ft-devel] fontconfig-2.3.3 causes crash on OpenSUSE 10.2

[David Turner]

Hello,

wow, that's a quick one. Could you please do the following to provide
us with a trace. Since we don't know much about the fonts on your
system, this would help tremendously:

1/ build FreeType 2.3.3 but install it on a local directory, e.g.

  ./configure --prefix=$HOME/test233 --disable-static
  make
  make install

I don't think you need the --gnu-ld option at this point

2/ close any FireFox instances you may have

3/ launch firefox directly by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
   On my Ubuntu box, I need to do:

   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/test233/lib:/usr/lib/firefox:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins 
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin

   do *not* invoke the "firefox" command, which is a script which will make 
things hard to debug
   avoid other paths in LD_LIBRARY_PATH to only use your system-installed 
libraries if possible.

4/ If it still crashes, it shouldn't bring down your desktop. Try then to 
launch it under gdb, with:

   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/test233/lib:/usr/lib/firefox:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins 
gdb --args /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin

   then type "r" to launch the program. When it crashes, please report what 
GDB's output
   A backtrace (type "bt" in gdb console) would also be useful to understand 
what the
   program was trying to do.

5/ If it *doesn't* crash, try the "--with-gnu-ld" option in configure. If it 
still doesn't crash,
   hmmmm, I don't know what to say at the moment.

You can also try it with other programs by defining 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/test233/lib only
(the other paths in the original commands above are a Firefox oddity)

Thanks in advance,

- David


On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:26:19 +0700, "ajaxas" <address@hidden> said:
> Hello, developers!
> I've experienced a wonderful crash after I'd installed freetype-2.3.3.
> 
> System: OpenSUSE 10.2
> Kernel: 2.6.21-rc3 (vanilla)
> libc:   libc-2.5
> gcc:    4.1.2 (final)
> ld:     2.17.50.0.5 20060927 (SUSE Linux)
> as:     2.17.50.0.5 20060927 (SUSE Linux)
> GNU make: 3.81
> fontconfig: 2.4.2
> 
> CPU:          Athlon XP (Barton) 2500+
> Video card:   NVidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB 
> Video driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9631
> 
> Configured with the next line:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-gnu-ld
> 
> Problem: everything worked nice until I started firefox and tried to
> visit my
> homepage. The firefox then crashed with blinking and freeze, all the
> Gnome lost
> it's view, and keyboard didn't work except for typing into textboxes.
> I.e. no
> shortcuts, no functional keys, etc.
> 
> This disappeared after I removed ~/.gnome2/session file and re-logined,
> but
> appeared again on another attempt to visit a site.
> 
> Uninstalling 2.3.3 and falling back to 2.3.1 changed everything back to
> normal.
> 
> 
> -- 
> ajaxas <address@hidden>
> 
> 
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