Re: [ft-devel] Re: xorg crashes with freetype2-2.1.10

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Everything is quite normal on my system (no crashes...).

James Cloos wrote:
> If none of those fonts generates a crash, I have to presume that
> either the X server is not using freetype 2.1.0 for its freetype
> font loading module or an X font server is in use.

No, don't have a font server. From my /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
        compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 2.1.0
        Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
        ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font FreeType

> Does the directory with that fonts.dir file show up in:
>
>     xset q

Font Path:
  /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/,...

> and is X's .../modules/fonts/libfreetype.so linked against freetype
> 2.1.0?  (It may be a dynamic link w/ the dlloader, but I presume
> would have to be a static link using the older elf loader.)

ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for 
`/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so'
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x40016000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40081000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4019f000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

 ls -l /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 20 Mar 29 07:37 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 -> 
libfreetype.so.6.3.8

(6.3.8 is 2.1.10 - 6.3.7 is 2.1.9).

> I was seeing crashes many months ago and stopped using scalable
> server-side fonts as a result.  I found that I didn't need any
> given that most of the apps I run now use Xft.  At that stage
> I had a cvs version of freetype installed in /usr/lib.  Xorg
> must have been linking against that rather than the version
> in the xorg tarfile.  That is likely distribution-specific
> behavior, though.
>
> -JimC

                
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