DJ Lucas wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: > >> Googling reveals many reasons for segmentation faults and a similar >> situation for me three years ago. I solved it by installing fontconfig >> as root--I use the more_control package system. I'm more experienced >> now (?) and want a fix instead of a band-aide, if in fact it's the same >> problem. Just in case it's something obvious to someone else here's my >> .mozconfig: >> > > Well, font problems do have a history of making Firefox choke, so I'm > not so sure your "band-aide" wasn't a proper fix. I don't recall > specifically Thunderbird having issues with fonts, but it is usually > installed after the problem is found with Firefox. If installed by the > book (short the packaging), then there are only 13 files installed > outside of the private directory (/etc/fonts) and docs. IIRC, the MCPM > hint uses a different user for each package. I'd start by chowning > those, 1 by 1 root:root and see if the problem magically disappears. If > my memory of the MCPM hint is incorrect, then please ignore. > > -- DJ Lucas >
Firefox and Thunderbird both work fine for me using Package Users - Fontconfig is installed as the fontconfig user and I don't have any problems. The usual cause for T-Bird or Firefox segfaults is forgetting to configure fontconfig to look for the X fonts - either by adding lines to /etc/fonts/local.conf to tell it where the fonts are (which is what BLFS used to say and what I still do) or making symlinks in /usr/share/fonts pointing to the X fonts installation location (as BLFS currently says to do). After doing either of these, run fc-cache as root and the fonts should be found (add "-v" to see if it actually finds them). -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
