Dear Khaled the segmentation fault is somewhat erratic for example moving around the letter g does not crash but moving say a character at uf8000 does - in some cases starting a new font, making it full unicode going to a higher point and simply pressing element is sufficient to crash. Even if somewhat difficult to describe there is indeed a serious problem here. I have one machine running ubuntu 9.10 which I have been doing all my fontforge work on because when I update to ubuntu 10.4 I noticed this bug, which has remained though I have updated to 10.10 .
Over the past week I have been preparing to do a fontforge training session in Feb and I myself thought that install rather than updating to Maverick solved the problem because I only tested 'g' . Regards John On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:35:26AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > Hi fontforge folks-- > > > > over on Debian, we've just gotten http://bugs.debian.org/656359, which > > appears to contain a reproducible segfault. > > > > Some folks have suggested that it may be due to more recent versions of > > dependent libraries, but i haven't been able to track it down in more > > detail, i'm afraid. > > > > From Theppitak's original report, a recipe to produce the crash: > > > > Steps to reproduce: > > - Start fontforge and create a new font. > > - Randomly choose a first glyph to edit. > > - Draw splines with at least 5 points. > > - Select up to 4 points and press a modifier or arrow key. It won't > crash. > > - Select at least 5 points and press a modifier or arrow key. It will > > always crash. > > > > Any suggestions? > > I can't reproduce this with fontforge built from git master running > under Ubuntu 10.04. > > Regards, > Khaled > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk8XxIQACgkQRoqITGOuyPK1ZQCcCbpBJVv/rWPqjv2Nt2WucSTo > +z8AnjaCxF1rgN9XERdIUtuhNgPzxdWq > =DfU6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-fonts-bugs mailing list > pkg-fonts-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fonts-bugs >
