xorg crashes with freetype2-2.1.10

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Mon Jul 18 22:49:53 GMT 2005


On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:24:40 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>  
wrote:

> Looks like the freetype module in xorg (and XFree86) makes reference to
> SFNT_Service->find_sbit_image which is now 0 in FT 2.1.10 (it used to be
> initialized to tt_find_sbit_image).  This causes X to die rather
> abruptly when trying to dereference this symbol:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/gdb/gdb-freetype2.txt
>
> I assume this was done by design in FT (though I couldn't find a commit
> message that said spoke about this particular change).  If so, what
> should X be doing to correctly obtain the glyph sbit?  Thanks!

I have solved the crash. I have been using it for the thirty minutes and  
no crash so far. If I do unpatch and it will crash within five minutes.  
Here's patch to put in freetype2/files. Don't know if patch is right, but  
at least it's fixed for me.

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/patch-src::sfnt::sfdriver.c

I found it by compared freetype2 2.1.9 and 2.1.10, you can check if you  
want to see for youself. I removed compare of Makefile, configure and  
other useless stuff.

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/freetype2-compare.diff.bz2

It looks like 2.1.10 removed or disabled *find_sbit_image? Search for  
'find_sbit_image' in freetype2-compare.diff.bz2.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe


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