Hi Brandon,
I think I may have found the problem that is causing these bugs to
occur.
The postinst and postrm scripts for the xfonts-scalable package both
seem to fail when running the command xftcache in these directories:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
This is caused by xftcache segfaulting, which it also did when run by
hand in these directories.
Tailing a stack trace indicates that the segmentation fault occurs when
xftcache tries to open a non-existent file: /root/.xftconfig
Tail of strace is here:
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40012000
read(3, "# $XFree86: xc/lib/Xft/XftConfig"..., 4096) = 1110
open("/root/.xftconfig", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
brk(0x804f000) = 0x804f000
read(3, "", 4096) = 0
read(3, "", 4096) = 0
close(3) = 0
munmap(0x40012000, 4096) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
It also dies if an empty file is created in this location.
A very simple (but bad) workaround is to edit /etc/X11/XftConfig and
comment out the line (around line 13 in mine):
includeif "~/.xftconfig"
I'm not sure if this only relates to debian or not.
Best regards,
Sam.
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Salter Projects Limited
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