[marcuscom] gnome 2.28 + linux apps = SIGSEGV ?

[Boris Samorodov]

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:32:58 -0600 Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:11:05 -0600, Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:

> > I faced a problem with 9-CURRENT and 8-STABLE:
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-November/013061.html
> >
> > Both systems use gnome-2.28 from marcuscom. Can anybody use
> > acroread8 with gnome-2.28? (I'm not sure but seems that skype
> > and linux-realplayer get SIGSEGV as well.) Other 8-STABLE
> > system with gnome from current ports tree works fine.

> Interesting.... I can't run linux-opera in MC either. At first, I
> thought  it might be related w/ security.bsd.map_at_zero and I didn't
> bother to try  it (by either update RELENG_8 w/ fixes or try this
> sysctl).

> Until your email.... Makes me think that it might be related w/
> print/freetype2, because of fontconfig is showing up in your ktrace?
> Try  to downgrade the freetype2 and see if it helps? It's only thing

Jeremy, good shot! It was fontconfig. I downgraded it to 2.6.0 and
acroread now works.

> that I can  think of what change in MC related w/ font stuff, I will
> need to check in  MC more. In the past, there was problem with linux
> apps when Linux and  FreeBSD have different version of fontconfig
> (cache stuff) at the same.  But this isn't in case as fontconfig isn't
> update or change in MC.

Is it? The version from MC was 2.7.3.

Well, in any case, the kernel should not do SIGSEGV, isn't it?

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