Date: 16 Jan 2003 14:02:40 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: alane@geeksrus.net Cc: David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with mozilla and phoenix Message-ID: <1042743759.324.82.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20030116184222.GA29490@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20030116124729.3cb9f809.david@realityrift.com> <20030116180416.GA4666@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20030116191615.529606c1.david@realityrift.com> <20030116184222.GA29490@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 13:42, AlanE wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:16:15PM +0100, David Holm wrote: > >On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:04:16 -0500 > >AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:47:29PM +0100, David Holm wrote: > >> >Hi, > >> >I'm not sure how send-pr works, but as I never get any response to most of my bug > >> >reports I decided to e-mail you just in case. > >> >Please check this out: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=47139 > >> > >> Never seen nor heard of the problem, can't reproduce it, nothing I can do. > >> It's on your system, as I have an up to date STABLE with up to the minute > >> ports (and then some) and have no problems, and use phoenix quite regularly > >> with no issues at all. > >> > >> -- > >> AlanE (Alan Eldridge) > >> Unix/C(++) IT Pro for 20 yrs, likes fixing weird distributed systems bugs. > >> KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) > >> > >Lol, do you maintain phoenix too ;). > > > >I got a reply from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, he thought I had some fucked up > >font installed. He suggested I removed some of my fontpaths or disabled Xft (no thanks ;). Understand, I'm not trying to blow you off. I'm serious about the font problems. I have precedent. Take a look at this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=114199+116637+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-gnome/20030112.freebsd-gnome I'm also not saying you should completely forgo anti-aliasing and custom fonts. I use them just fine. What I am saying is _try_ without custom fonts or Xft, and see if the problem goes away. If it does, perhaps we can narrow down your problem to one font, and remove it. What have you got to lose? If you find this doesn't fix the problem, we may have another issue. This might be related to the recent download crash, but you said you did a portupgrade, and the latest Phoenix should have this patch. The latest Mozilla in the tree isn't affected by this bug, but Mozilla 1.3a would be. However, I have added the same patch to my Mozilla 1.3a diff. After all that, you're still free to disregard my suggestions, too. Joe > > > >//David Holm > > He's right, too. I just thought that had been said a million times already. > There are crashing issues with bad fonts. If you've got the lfp-fonts-* ports > installed, start with removing those. Sorry, but that's really the deal here. > > Realize maintaining a bleeding edge browser built out of cvs means diagnosing > what we can; Joe has a lot of experience with mozilla-devel, and it is built > from the same source tree that phoenix is. So listening to him is a good idea. > > Mozilla and Phoenix are easily two of the largest ports there are in terms > of lines of code; the fact that it may have been checked into CVS the night > before (or the hour before) the release was tagged means that this is serious > alpha level code... pre-alpha, or dogfood, is more like it. We can't be > expected to understand all of it, and by 2 hours after it was tagged, the > bug we're chasing might have been fixed (or not). -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports-bugs" in the body of the message
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