On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Bukie Mabayoje wrote:
> > Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >> I synced up and built and now, though the server starts fine,
> >> apps can't get any fonts. Window managers claim they can't find
> >> fontsets like fixed so menus and such have no text in them.
> >> xfontsel seems to work though. Anyone know what's going on?
> >> It's like the fonts.alias isn't being read anymore. I can
> >> see fixed in the fonts.alias and I can see the corresponding
> >> font in the fonts.dir and I can see that the font file exists
> >> and can verify that the server acknowledged that font path.
>
> > I am looking into a similar problem too, when xfs is not running.
>
> I've been able to make the fontset message appear with a simple test case
> (holding down the control key and pressing any mouse button while the pointer
> is in an xterm).
I don't see that message with xterm. TWM menus don't work though.
But, if I run TWM remotely from another machine it works. I think
that implies that it's a problem with the local libraries. Another
data point, is a test app that opens "fixed" seems to work fine, so
it's not the case that aliases are broken in general - just in some
cases.
Bukie, how long have you been seeing this problem? I updated
yesterday and saw it for the first time. The last time I updated
was Nov 26. so that gives a pretty large window.
Mark.
>
> I've also tried this with a build where CHANGELOG 264 is backed out and it
> still happens so something else is causing this. CHANGELOG 264 is
>
> 264. In font handling, avoid potential security issues related to
> wrap-around
> of memory allocation requests (Marc La France).
>
> Marc.
>
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