On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 16:22 +0100, Leszek Koltunski wrote: > Package: fontconfig > Version: 2.4.2-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > I've got an AMD64 system with a i386 chroot where I install 386-only > applictions ( Firefox for the > flashplugin, Skype etc ). I am writing this report from within the chroot. > > After one of recent updates, Firefox and Skype started crashing on > startup. 'strace firefox' gave > me clues that it crashes while trying to open cached fonts in > ~/.fontconfig/. Indeed, a 'rm -rf > ~/.fontconfig' makes Firefox start up and work normally. Same goes for > Skype.
Hmm. That seems to indicate that the files in ~/.fontconfig created by version 2.4.1 are incompatible with those created by 2.4.2. As far as I know, this is not the case though. And, in fact, the configuration mechanism in building the library is supposed to automatically detect when the cache files would be incompatible with the expected layout. A stack trace against a version of fontconfig built with debugging symbols would be very useful here if you can manage; otherwise, I haven't a clue what could be going on. Evaluating the differences from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 (they are small) shows little that could be at fault here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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