Re: X11 crash when creating font cache

[gLaNDix]

oh kewl, i'll have to check that out...  strangly enough, i tried again a
few hours later (after not doing any changes) and it went through, but
complained about being unable to create ~/GNUstep/Library/Fonts/Cache
... i looked and ~/G/L/F/Cache was a binary file w/ executable
permissions...  i removed this file and re-ran font_catcher and it all
worked fine since then...  i never looked to see if i could use TrueType
fonts, but the program ran and I prefer Helvetica for GNUstep apps anyway,
so i didn't care! : ^ )

but, i'll upgrade XF86 tonite and see what other good that will do! (i'm
currently using 4.0.2 if i didn't mention that already)...

thanks!
Jesse

On 17 Mar 2001, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> Date: 17 Mar 2001 09:01:10 +0100
> From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
> To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Cc: glandix@linuxfreak.com
> Subject: Re: X11 crash when creating font cache
> 
> JK> About a minute or two of sitting there with "Building font
> JK> cache..." on my WTerm, X completely bombs w/ a Signal 11 error and
> JK> i'm back at my login screen.
> 
> Are you using XFree86?  Which version?  And do you have any TrueType
> fonts installed?
> 
> There was a bug in the TrueType renderer included in XFree86 4.0.2.
> You should upgrade to 4.0.3 (which has been out for a good few hours
> now).  As a workaround, you may remove the TrueType fonts from your
> font path.
> 
>                                         Juliusz
> 

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