On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:52 -0400, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> Ross Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 06:48 -0400, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> >> I'm using OO on a Gentoo system, and when I try to use spadmin to import
> >> fonts from my system font folders, it segfaults as shortly after I enter
> >> the path to the font folders. It's almost as if it's trying to read teh
> >> fonts in and hits an upper limit on how many fonts it can handle, and
> >> instead of processing that many fonts, it simply segfaults, thus
> >> importing ZERO fonts.
> > 
> > Sounds plausible but how many fonts are in that folder? I don't think
> > spadmin "processes" the font files except to copy them eventually, but
> > it sounds like you haven't got that far yet - you appear to be at the
> > stage where spadmin builds the list of fonts, from which you will then
> > select the ones to import. I think it's only dealing with file names so
> > far. Are there any particularly weird file names in the folder?
> 
> Not really. Just 1025 ttf files copied over from my old Windows font
> folder. I made sure to just copy the ttf files over, so there wouldn't
> be a problem with fon files.

Hmmm. It wouldn't be the first time someone has hard coded a size of
1024 for an array :) But at least there's an obvious workaround if this
is the problem.

> And yes, it does seem as if it's crashing on building the font list,
> since it never even gets to the point of displaying the list before it
> crashes. Funny thing is, OO is the only program that doesn't have access
> to the fonts. Every other program on my system, from Nautilus to
> Scribus, can access the fonts, no problem.
> 
> 

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