On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:35:12AM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2003 18:34, I wrote:
> > I've got a little problem with Mozilla. When I try to load certain URLs, X
> > crashes with a segfault. I cannot remember having this problem with a
> > self-built X installation, it came along with the 4.2.1 .deb's. It happens
> > with 1.2.1and 1.3a.
> 
> So, it seems I got rid of that problem. After some fiddling with xfontsel, I 
> found that just selecting the foundries "altsys" and "macromedia" caused the 
> segfault in X. The fonts in those foundries were from a windows installation 
> and deleting them fixed it.
> 
> FYI, some fonts that caused the crash are Timmons, Arioso and Chevara.

You should probably file a bug on (maybe?) xserver-xfree86, since I
really doubt a bad font should be able to crash the X server.

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Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                            http://ertius.org/

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