Re: [Devel] Segfault at FT_New_Face() for some Type1 fonts?

[David Turner]

Hi Anthony,

Anthony Fok a écrit :
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I just received two bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System.
> It seems that FreeType 2.0.5 would segfault at FT_New_Face() or other
> functions for some Type1 fonts.  (It was originally thought to be
> a gnome-print problem, but apparently ftview exhibits the same error.)
> (I wonder if it is a known problem or not.)
> 
> BTW, Andras and Mike, if possible, could you please send me a copy of
> a font that triggers this error, and as well as the {l,s}trace?
> Thanks!  I am sure the FreeType developers would like to test it
> too.  :-)
> 
> For more information, please refer to these two pages:
> 
>         http://bugs.debian.org/119848
>         http://bugs.debian.org/122485
>

Thanks a lot for your report. Do you know where we could find this
font. I'm afraid we won't be able to do much things without it !!

Cheers,

- David

PS:
  Murphy's laws on Open Source:

    The number of critical bug reports received is inversely
    proportional to the days before a new release !! :o)
 


> One case looks like this:
> 
>  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>  0x4057b751 in FTC_SBit_Cache_Lookup () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  (gdb) bt
>  #0  0x4057b751 in FTC_SBit_Cache_Lookup () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  #1  0x4057b7bc in FTC_SBit_Cache_Lookup () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  #2  0x4057c404 in FTC_SBit_Cache_Lookup () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  #3  0x4058f36a in TT_RunIns () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  #4  0x4058f417 in TT_RunIns () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  #5  0x4058ef24 in TT_RunIns () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  #6  0x4056c97d in FT_Load_Char () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  #7  0x4056cba9 in FT_Open_Face () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  #8  0x4056ca0a in FT_New_Face () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>  #9  0x0804c215 in gf_pfb_open ()
>  #10 0x0804a753 in main ()
>  #11 0x0804ad7b in main ()
>  #12 0x0804abcf in main ()
>  #13 0x0804a026 in main ()
>  #14 0x405b666f in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Anthony
> 
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