[ft-devel] Re: xorg crashes with freetype2-2.1.10

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Jul 20 06:12:55 GMT 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 02:11 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 07:16 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 07:02 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > > 
> > >>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > >><snipped>
> > >>
> > >>>Ours is autogenerated by ttmkfdir.  You might fine some helpful hints on
> > >>>crashing X from this thread:
> > >>>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-359535-highlight-aalib.html?sid=58ed6c452268c0e3f213df9db314ee45.
> > >>
> > >>hmm, don't have ttmkfdir (or ttfmkdir, or mkttfdir), but mkfontdir is
> > >>shipped with xorg. Still can't crash X - tried gtk mplayer.
> > >>My LANG is  unset, LC_COLLATE=C , LC_ALL=C ,
> > >>but I have plenty of CJK fonts, the Arphic chinese ones and the microsoft 
> > >>chinese and japanese ones - and I specifically tried CJK web pages earlier
> > >>with mozilla. No crashes so far.
> > >>
> > >>What version of xorg is your user using?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 6.8.2.  You also need the freetype module loaded in X.
> > 
> > yes, I Know that - how else can I view web pages with truetype fonts?!
> > Curious problem.
> 
> Font server.
> 
> > 
> > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
> > (II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
> >          compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 2.1.0
> >          Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
> >          ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4
> 
> I guess one other thing to check is that libfreetype.so (the X module)
> is linked to the correct version of freetype2.  But in any event, the
> code in X is clearly suspect, and reverting that change to 

Sent too soon.  Reverting the change to sfdriver.c does make the
reported problem go away.

Joe

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