Hi,
(please keep the bug in copy)
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007, Ralph Benzinger wrote:
> * Galeon crashes might be a font problem after all. This is what is
> being dumped to stdout/err:
> (galeon:4014): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly
> output. the offending font is 'Arial Unicode MS 9'
> (galeon:4014): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents
> called with bad font, expect ugly output
Yes; this is a symptom that you selected a font which is crashing.
> Arial Unicode MS is the default Unicode font in Windows. All pages
> that crash Galeon contain some non-latin characters.
> I couldn't find a single reference to Arial Unicode in my
> configuration, though -- not in the preference menus, and not in
> about:config. Interestingly, scrolling about:config some pages down
> _also_ crashes my browser. (I should note that other than Galeon
> crashing, my system is rock solid.)
> So, these questions remain:
> * Why is Galeon using the Arial Unicode font?
It's probably configured at some level. Either in Galeon, or in GNOME,
or at the fontconfig level. You can check which font is the default
"Sans" font with:
fc-match Sans
> * Is Pango the correct component for forwarding this bug report?
No, I think it's very likely that it's a bug in your font. Fonts have
byte-codes which can crash programs. Do you know which package your
font comes from?
--
Loïc Minier
