From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 21:05:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199DF1065678 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 21:05:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cjr@cruwe.de) Received: from cruwe.de (cruwe.de [188.40.164.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C868A8FC12 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 21:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cruwe.de (unknown [127.0.0.4]) by cruwe.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E168D409 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 21:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by cruwe.de (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 25228D408; Fri, 25 May 2012 21:04:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mail.cruwe.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from dijkstra.cruwe.de (p5B37B3D2.dip.t-dialin.net [91.55.179.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by cruwe.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 18C1BD406 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 21:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 23:04:55 +0200 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" To: Message-ID: <20120525230455.3f55afcb@dijkstra.cruwe.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV on mail.cruwe.de using ClamSMTP Subject: xorg crashes after ports-wide update, fontconfig the culprit? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 21:05:06 -0000 Having done a portmaster -a rendered my system virtually unusable, Xorg kept crashing when opening claws-mail, firefox and thunderbird, opera kept chrashing in a random fashion, too. Quod googelet "x11 crash site:freebsd.org" and narrowing down the results for to the last week, I found two references, i.e., 1) http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=178234 and 2) http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=178014. Having implemented 2) via portdowngrade to fontconfig-2.8.0_2,1 seems to have solved the crashing issues for opera and claws, firefox and thunderbird are waiting to be compiled. Has anyone observed similar issues, can anyone back my suspicion about fontconfig or show me how to prove it and wouldn't a note on UPDATING be in order? Thanks for your comments, cheers and have a nice weekend, -- Christopher TZ GMT +2