On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Net Llama! wrote: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Collins wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:43:41 -0500 Klaus-Peter Schrage > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Net Llama! wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Collins wrote: > > > > > > > >>This is mozilla 1.2.1. I didn't have strace, so I emerged it and > > > >ran>strace. mozilla was segfaulting while handling fonts. > > > >> > > > >>A lengthy analysis of a good strace (collins) and a failure (new) > > > >>indicated differences in handling the ~/.fonts.cache-1 file. I > > > >tried>rm'ing the file and tried again, but no joy. Next I copied > > > >over the>/home/collins/.fonts.cache-1 file, and now mozilla will > > > >start.> > > > >>This could be an XFree problem (?). Now that a usable > > > >>~/.fonts-cache-1 file is present, the warning messages I got from > > > >xfce>have disappeared as well. Does anyone know which packaged > > > >generates>the .fonts.cache-1 file so that I could investigate > > > >further? > > > > > > > > > > > > No such file exists in Redhat. Perhaps this is something specific > > > > to Gentoo? > > > > > > > > > > The fonts-cache files are part of the new font handling in Redhat > > > 8.0, which BTW is not RH specific, but seem to be the future font > > > system in XFree (RH only are the first distro to have it > > > incorporated). This is all nicely outlined by Havoc Pennington here: > > > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/002797.html > > > > > > > Unfortunately, the Pennington article is a bit too Red Hat specific to > > be of any use. I have a non-RedHat system that has been XFree 4.2.1 > > since install, but I'm experiencing problems now with new users, and > > it all points to the same type of thing. I've reported this to gentoo > > to see if they know anything else. > > Seems that some Mandrake folks are having problems too. Do you have a > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1 ?
Just found this: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Joi1d7A7wjUC:www.xfree86.org/pipermail/fonts/2002-September/002094.html++%22fonts.cache-1%22+group:*linux*&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8 This kinda sounds like it might be the problem you're having? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
