Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:42:41 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> To: Kaarthik Sivakumar <kaarthik@comcast.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Revisited: firefox and xemacs locking up/crashing "in pairs"??? Message-ID: <3880000.1080546161@rambutan.pingpong.net> In-Reply-To: <864qs85hu2.fsf@comcast.net> References: <15980000.1080520733@palle.girgensohn.se> <864qs85hu2.fsf@comcast.net>
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--On Monday, March 29, 2004 00:43:17 -0500 Kaarthik Sivakumar <kaarthik@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> "PG" == Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes: > PG> Hi, > PG> Remember this old thread? It's been a while, I've been running > PG> firebird 0.6.1, rock stable, since higher versions crash. > > PG> I just updated firefox again, to 0.8_4, to see if this has > PG> changed, and I think I have pinned down what causes the error, > PG> although I still can't understand why. > > PG> It is the bitmapped fonts from the XFree86-75dpi | 100dpi > PG> packages, that firefox cannot stand. Removing those directories > PG> from the system's root fonts.cache-1 file makes the problem go > PG> away. > > PG> Details: > > PG> Firefox >= 0.7 crashes often, and sometimes xemacs freezes as this > PG> happens. > > PG> I have a standard X setup (well right now the X server is 3.3.99 > PG> snap, but it wasn't before, and this has nothing to do with it). I > PG> use xfs for serving all fonts, but this seems also to be beside > PG> the point - AFAIKT, firefox uses fontconfig/freetype2 and not X > PG> for font rendering, right? > > If fontconfig/freetype2 is one of the suspects here, then I am not > sure why XEmacs should freeze. XEmacs doesnt use either. Unless you > are using the patch floating around that makes XEmacs use Xft or > fontconfig, I am not sure which. When this freeze happens, does XEmacs > return to life? Does changing the XEmacs' default font using Options > menu cause it to not freeze? Sorry, I am approaching this from the > XEmacs' side and not Firefox's, and I am not sure how useful that is > for you. I use the xemacs port, I doubt it has Xft linked in. Since the same thing works in mozilla, only fails in firefox, I'm not sure it is fontconfig/freetype2? > I use XEmacs 21.5 (although I compiled from source, without the patch) > and linux-mozillafirebird 0.7 and I dont see this problem. What happens with native firebird? /Palle
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